From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 05:14:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00001065670 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:14:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1998FC24 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6N5EJQ7028445 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:14:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C492524.8080109@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:14:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 References: <4C48EE42.1050102@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4C48EE42.1050102@a1poweruser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1828DBF5B0DE38FBC6E9EEB5" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ports INDEX file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:14:32 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1828DBF5B0DE38FBC6E9EEB5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23/07/2010 02:20:02, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have a pristine install of 8.0. > There is no /usr/ports directory yet. > I am trying to use the "portcheckout" port and the "porteasy" port to > just populate the ports tree with only the ports I use. I've heard of a few people trying to do things like this, and mostly the consensus is that's it's more trouble than it's worth. Good luck. In order to make your cut-down tree work properly, you'ld have to maintain custom versions of /usr/ports/Makefile and which ever of the category Makefiles you use (ie. the Makefiles one level down the tree). > Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file= > to process and since I have none they don't work. >=20 > How can I just download the ports INDEX file? > Portsnap is not a solution. You can use my ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex port to build an INDEX file -- ideally you should get it to run without complaints about missing dependencies and such, but if you don't it will do the best it can to produce something resembling an INDEX. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig1828DBF5B0DE38FBC6E9EEB5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxJJSoACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwlXACfRa/A7Ou6qDd/yzPm0JUMTcAG m1sAn28yYPNc+6gMTQmxlZUBO0ZP7sGl =4bvj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1828DBF5B0DE38FBC6E9EEB5--