From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 20:03:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7272216A41C for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:03:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB4043D48 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:03:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l1so267177nzf for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=aMp7wRHWTgS1PJIMvUHdywqyT7DkYJ1aDULxzl6BIkhvCC8G5tmowCmytNVrGGyikN91Msl+0VhlnsgBfRXjNTSFvkJ1M9LGBRRqjC62pluQsoAQfrJtd54mgC6RX35UTSpoGL8HmAqhMmOrKjnsbsO6qUTTPeBxlWJZE8JI7aI= Received: by 10.36.57.15 with SMTP id f15mr731826nza; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([71.102.4.50]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm2421243nzp.2005.07.14.13.03.45; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:03:42 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42D6B0EA.3000501@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <42D6B0EA.3000501@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507141303.43540.ringworm01@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS 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: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:03:49 -0000 On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the release notes or > code so I could look up the dependencies for the portsmanager package > and possibly compile it on Mac OS X Tiger. Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is. I understand Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's port infrastructure? For example can you do things like: make make install make package make deinstall ??? If the above work diferently or /var/db/pkg/* is different then portmanager won't work. Would be interesting to know the similarities/differences between FreeBSD and Mac OS X ports infrastructure. As far as portmanager's dependices, to run it requires libc and to compile just needs standard autotools if I recall correctly. > My FreeBSD machine is currently at home (sadly without an internet > connection to the outside world :(), and I would like to keep it up to > date by periodically fetching the ports 'source files'/packages and port > snapshots. So I thought I could accomplish this via building the > portsmanager package and running it off of my laptop at school since > it's the only way I can accomplish my task at hand. > However, with that in mind, I was wondering if there was a better > way to fetch ports/packages without having to manhandle too many > programs/scripts, or if anyone has discovered a better solution to this > type of 'issue'. > Thanks and your responses are greatly appreciated as solving this > 'problem' will help save me a great deal of time :)! > -Garrett To use portmanager this way you'll need a way to keep your ports tree current and a way to get the current distfiles. If you can do these two things somehow then just drop the current distfiles into /usr/ports/distfiles and update your ports tree and portmanager should run OK. -Mike