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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!newsmaster From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Removing leading path in FreeBSD Ports Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:26:25 -0500 Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32E64DC1.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tuva.wellfleet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34372 When I get a port from the FreeBSD web pages, the tar file has long leading paths like: pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/mail/procmail/ I try to keep things neat by keeping these ports in my own port directory, but I have to manually trim off the pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports part, which is annoying. Am I missing some nifty tar argument that would do this automatically? Is there some other way of dealing with this short of creative symlinks? Am I the only person who gets miffed about this? ;-) -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com