Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:37:12 -0800 From: Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us> To: wpaladin@ic.sunysb.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: packages Message-ID: <199501102337.PAA00810@timesink.spk.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <199501101625.IAA14574@freefall.cdrom.com> (message from Not On Our Customer File on Tue, 10 Jan 95 11:24:43 EST)
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>>>>> "Bill" == Not On Our Customer File <wpaladin@ic.sunysb.edu> writes:
Bill> Hi: In response to a query I made re the location of such
Bill> utilities as emacs, ksh, XView etc. it was suggested that I
Bill> use pkg_add and pkg_info in the packages directory. Well
Bill> using find I find no packages or Packages or pkgs ... Is it
Bill> me ... ? -- Bill Paladino
You've got the CDROM, right? Yeah, I made this same mistake, thinking
there was none of the stuff mentioned on the back of the cdrom's
package. They're all there, I can assure you...
On the cdrom, in a directory named /cdrom/ports/distfiles
are all of the tar files for all of the packages that can be installed
on your FreeBSD system. In /cdrom/ports/*/*, you'll find
all of the packages that have been ported to FreeBSD.
What I did was tar the /cdrom/ports (except for distfiles) directory
over to my hard drive in /usr/ports, then created a symbolic link from
/usr/ports/distfiles to /cdrom/ports/distfiles, and now all I have to
do is go to one of the directories that I want to create the package
of, type make, and wait... The makefile will extract the files from
the distfiles directory, and then make the package. Type make
install, and viola!
To use the pkg_add stuff, just log in as root, cd to /cdrom/packages
and do a "pkg_add <name of tar file>" and wait. It seems that many of
these packages weren't packaged too well, but all of them are in the
ports directory too, so you can go there if the pre-packaged ones
don't work.
questions? write me.
keith.
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