[OmniOS-discuss] building our own packages : suggested prefix?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 11:10:52AM -0800, Tim Rice wrote:
> Mayuresh,
> 
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> 
> > hello, would anyone with custom software building for omnios
> > be able to suggest the usual value for "--prefix" variable
> > to "./configure"?
> That would depend on whether you intend to build installable packages or
> are just doing the equivalent of "configure ; make ; make install".
> If you are not packaging up the code and are just doing a "make install",
> the convention is to use /usr/local as the prefix.

tim, thanks for that tip, stuff installed and works like a charm.
there's just one hitch though, how do i suggest to omnios to also
use /usr/local/man as a directory for man pages?

i did hunt for man.conf in /etc, found nothing.

> If you intend to build a package installable with
> "pkg install some_package_name", there are more things to consider.
> If you intend to publish them for others to use, you will probably want
> to choose some new directory in /opt. Perhaps /opt/mk.
> If they are only used for systems you control, you may want to consider
> something like 

i don't have the resources to put up my own repository.
is there a way i could work with someone having a repository to put up a
bunch of packages which might be useful for general work like mail, www,
irc, etc.
 
thanks,

~mayuresh