From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 04:11:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4397A1065689 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA78C8FC0C for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so166996uge.39 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8r1xDQKGxo35YmXMiFCjLAxRfi7AwQNJGoBsw93r3ao=; b=X8BvvwGqDnwbtpp7OVacCeN8f6NJFCEWwfODoh5aPNbfOcm3jvnq6hHJ3KK/Gzq4pn /4J5nNqDURC9yZ2Ls8HxAUTjhShfLAVJ4CsBh5rEeEpzQHdnCrOf4qFBlNUhzsX2wVEQ gNaALIhyUpG0uSAY6zJZhdJhm2SDyI2TqFG4w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=xUWdpqp9p3mVuNcQz2/ToLTfUyOIBS1x1xJwZ/sUTP6x3HE8N21R+3P0zWk/GRhcou 6t8KhUiuj+KIgxRfsENnItDI8XFGTkCPPjpj81MsprWW4XAMPHTtjxrzps3kkak54YK4 Hb6IVx2P4ZoCs9wGIBDc5i35pTbxfIiT4RTxk= Received: by 10.67.101.17 with SMTP id d17mr48450ugm.40.1222575087156; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.251.1 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0809272111l6c89eb05i25538121afc7b479@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Michel Talon" In-Reply-To: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:11:29 -0000 On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon wrote: > Marin Atanasov wrote: > >> So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste of >> time? >> Thanks for any suggestions. > > I think it is worth improving and certainly not a waste of time. > Each work which allows to use precompiled packages more efficiently > in FreeBSD is very useful, in my opinion. While compiling ports > is very fine on a server, where only a small number of ports are > installed - and then the tool "portmaster" does that really > wonderfully, looking at the other extreme, a desktop with around > a thousand installed ports is better managed through precompiled > packages. And, sorry, but portupgrade is not the solution to do that, > either with the -P or -PP option. > > I can only concur with the suggestion you mention, exploring ftp sites > to discover what is available here. How to do that efficiently is > harder. Apparently "official" FreeBSD ftp sites have an INDEX of > available packages. I hope it is reliable. Then i suggest to download it > and work from that. > > Best regards > > -- > > Michel TALON INDEX is made available via to pkg_install within sysinstall and exists on mirrors in the following location: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-${VERSION}/INDEX where ARCH can be: - amd64 - sparc64 - i386 etc, etc and version can be: - 7-stable - 7.0-release - 8-current etc, etc Poking around: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports will give you the results you desire. -Garrett