macports-users Digest, Vol 220, Issue 7

[Michael Newman]

No need to apologize. You tried to teach me something and I was too dense to understand. Now I get it and am grateful for the lesson.

> On Dec 17, 2024, at 19:00,mike at cappella.us <mailto:mike at cappella.us> wrote:
> 
> Apologies.  No need to do any of that.  Instead ...
> 
>> says to override default variables by putting them in the following file:
>> 
>> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
>> 
>> However, that directory does not exist. So, I'm lost. Do I need to create that directory or does the override file go somewhere else?
> 
> You'd do this:
> 
>    sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf
>    sudo touch /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
> 
> Edit that file as root to add your overrides.

> On Dec 17, 2024, rlhamil at smart.net <mailto:00rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:

> Together with the prior "re-root" comment, that means instead of copying the file to /etc/logwatch/conf and editing it as desired, it should be put in /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf.
> 
> Further consideration of the comments means that almost always, a MacPorts port would put files in /opt/local/etc/... that would normally go in /etc/....; ditto for /opt/local/var vs /var, and so on. Likewise, things that non-MacPorts installs of software that usually installs in /usr/local/... would tend to install in /opt/local/...  There might be slight variations or exceptions, but if you check those, you'll usually find the answer..

Got it. I knew that MacPorts installed binaries in /opt/local/bin but had no idea that other files went to  /opt/local/etc/. I have only a few ports installed, so perhaps that’s why I never ran into this before.

I appreciate the explanation.


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