From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 03:45:54 2006 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 6A91616A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:45:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ow.mun.heng@wdc.com) Received: from wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com (wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com [129.253.170.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BB643D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:45:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ow.mun.heng@wdc.com) Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([129.253.108.208]) by wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:45:50 -0800 Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1N3jKph007452 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:45:20 +0800 From: Ow Mun Heng To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <43FD25AB.8020507@daleco.biz> References: <1140659905.1984.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <43FD25AB.8020507@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:45:20 +0800 Message-Id: <1140666320.4762.18.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2006 03:45:50.0499 (UTC) FILETIME=[A3880F30:01C6382B] Subject: Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile) 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, 23 Feb 2006 03:45:54 -0000 On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a > >rough diamond. > > > > > > "rough diamond" ... I like that idea. :D haha.. > As mentioned by one other poster, "-f" will force the deinstall. > Not an option for me. Bad experience with ignoring deps. (but seems like it's the norm for BSD folks?) > >I've even tried sysinstall but that only lists xterm-203 as the package > >to install. (I suspect this is because its packagesite is > >packages-6-release) > > > > > > Yes. IIRC, you can change "RELEASE_NAME" with sysinstall and > this would likely cause sysinstall to give you a different list of > packages. Ah.. Didn't know that. > I'd look into installing and using one of the more advanced > package management tools; perhaps portupgrade. portupgrade > can be told to utilize binary packages instead of building from > source, and would be pretty automagic, a la "emerge" in Gentoo, > I suspect (though I've not used Gentoo and therefore can't say > for certain). > I'm trying it now. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200501/freebsd_apps.html has good info on it. reading the man pages also provided some good clues . eg: "-PP" would be the option I would want to pass to it. (get binary packages and _only_ binary packages) > > > You're welcome; HTH. Much great help. Thanks. BTW, how come this list does not use the "reply to list" and always adds the org sender in "to" and puts the list in CC? What's the norm here anyway? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:41:44 up 1 day, 13:16, 4 users, load average: 0.26, 0.54, 0.64