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.\" Take from FreeBSD and adjusted to MacPortss' needs.
.Dd June 1, 2007
.Dt PORTHIER 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm porthier
.Nd layout of the ports-filesystems
.Sh DESCRIPTION
A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy as it is applied on ports being distributed by MacPorts.
.Bl -tag -width "/Applications/"
.It Pa ${prefix}/
The base of the MacPorts filesystem hierarchy. By default set to "/opt/local/"
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "include/"
.It Pa bin/
common utilities, programming tools, and applications
.It Pa etc/
system configuration files and scripts
.It Pa include/
standard C include files
.It Pa lib/
archive libraries
.It Pa libexec/
system daemons & system utilities (executed by other programs)
.It Pa Library/Frameworks/
Native macOS Library Frameworks
.It Pa sbin/
system programs and administration utilities
.It Pa share/
architecture-independent files
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "locale/" -compact
.It Pa doc/
miscellaneous documentation
.It Pa info/
GNU Info hypertext system
.It Pa java/
applications based on Java
.It Pa locale/
localization files
.It Pa man/
manual pages
.It Pa misc/
misc system-wide ASCII text files
.El
.Pp
.It Pa src/
source code
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "macports/" -compact
.It Pa macports/
MacPorts package building topdir
.Pp
.El
.It Pa var/
multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "spool/" -compact
.It Pa db/
misc. automatically generated system-specific database files
.It Pa macports/
MacPorts runtime data
.Bl -tag -width "build/" -compact
.It Pa build/
Where ports are built and destrooted
.It Pa distfiles/
Holds the distfiles of the fetched ports
.It Pa receipts/
Obsolete. Formerly held the registry information and receipts for the installed ports,
in flat-file format.
.It Pa registry/
Contains the registry database in sqlite format.
.It Pa software/
Holds compressed images of the installed ports. These
are extracted to ${prefix} when activated.
.It Pa sources/
Holds the sources of both the porttree (the Portfiles) and the
sources for the base system
.Pp
.El
.It Pa spool/
directory containing output spool files
.It Pa log/
misc. system log files
.It Pa run/
system information files describing various info about
system since it was booted
.El
.Pp
.It Pa www/
files to be served by a http server
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "cgi-bin/" -compact
.It Pa cgi-bin/
directory for cgi executables
.El
.El
.It Pa /Applications/MacPorts/
Native macOS applications
.Pp
.El
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr port 1 ,
.Xr macports.conf 5 ,
.Xr portfile 7 ,
.Xr portgroup 7 ,
.Xr portstyle 7 ,
.Xr hier 7
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page appeared first in MacPorts. Lots of it is based on hier(7).
.Sh AUTHORS
.An "Felix Kronlage" Aq fkr@opendarwin.org
.An "Juan Manuel Palacios" Aq jmpp@macports.org