Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:28:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package-recursive and methods to quickly rebuild your computer Message-ID: <20060913132841.26ad2ec5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <24832.167.246.36.14.1158158944.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> References: <24832.167.246.36.14.1158158944.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org>
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In response to "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.org>: > so ive been playing with my buildserver, and working out the methodology > to quickly recover a computer to operational mode. > > yesterday, i took my buildserver, and began with a 'pkg_delete -a', and > then updated my ports tree. i then proceeded to visit each port directory > of things my production server runs, and did a 'make install > package-recursive', until had a /usr/ports/packages/ directory that was > very full of what appears to be invididual packages of each of the things > i need on my server. > > next, i took a test box, and mounted /usr/ports from my build server to > this test box, changed to /usr/ports/packages/All, and did a 'pkg_add -v > *', and watched as what appeared to be each package this directory install > onto my test box. > > the first thing i decided to test, was apache (2.0.59). apache would fire > up, but php would not work well enough to load squirrelmail or something > like phpsysinfo. phpsysinfo told me that the xml and pcre exentions are > required, but 'pkg_info|grep php5' told me that these extensions were > installed. if i do a plain 'pkg_info' on both my build server and test > box, they are line for line the same, but some things are obvously not > working. > > first, am i going about this project in the wrong direction? Sounds good to me. > second, what is the proper way to use the packages that have been built > from ports, and how do they differ from actually building the port on a > system? It sounds to me like the php addons aren't getting registered in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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