PORTHIER
7
porthier
layout of the ports filesystems
Description
A map of the filesystem hierarchy used by MacPorts and the ports it
installs. Much of it is based on
hier
7
.
${prefix}
The base of the MacPorts filesystem hierarchy.
Default: /opt/local/
bin/
Common utilities, programming tools, and
applications.
etc/
System configuration files and scripts.
include/
Standard C include files.
lib/
Archive libraries.
libexec/
System daemons and system utilities (executed by other
programs).
Library/Frameworks/
Native Mac OS X Library Frameworks
sbin/
System programs and administration utilities.
share/
Architecture-independent files.
doc/
Miscellaneous documentation.
examples/
Examples for users and programmers.
info/
GNU Info hypertext system.
locale/
Localization files.
man/
Manual pages.
misc/
Miscellaneous system-wide ASCII text files.
src/
Source code.
var/
Multi-purpose log, temporary, transient and spool
files.
db/
Miscellaneous automatically generated
system-specific database files.
macports/
MacPorts package building topdir.
build/
Where ports are built and destrooted.
distfiles/
Storage location for the distfiles of fetched
ports.
packages/
Obsolete. Formerly contained archives (packages) of installed
ports.
receipts/
Obsolete. Formerly contained the registry information and receipts
for installed ports, in flat-file format.
registry/
Contains the registry database in sqlite format.
software/
The files for each installed port are stored here.
sources/
Holds the sources for the ports tree (the
Portfiles) and also MacPorts base.
spool/
Directory containing output spool files.
log/
Miscellaneous system log files.
run/
System information files describing various
information about the system since it was booted.
www/
Files to be served by an http server.
cgi-bin/
Directory for cgi executables.
/Applications/MacPorts/
Native Mac OS X applications.
SEE ALSO
port
1
,
macports.conf
5
,
portfile
7
,
portgroup
7
,
portstyle
7
,
hier
7
AUTHORS
Felix Kroniage fkr@opendarwin.org
Juan Manuel Palacios jmpp@macports.org