Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Michel Talon" <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0809272111l6c89eb05i25538121afc7b479@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> 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
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