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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Rob Lytle" <jan6146@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry
	I started flame war
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700, "Rob Lytle" <jan6146@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a
> dependency is already present.  Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to
> install gigantic packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE
> metapackage, and my notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or
> thereabout.  That is one hell of a long compile time.  For this
> request I will just have to wait for FreeBSD 10.0.

Crashing is a bug.  We should fix that.  Having said this, I often use
portupgrade for this sort of thing.

After mounting the DVD, you can see what would be installed with

    # mount /cdrom
    # env PKG_PATH=/cdrom/packages/All portupgrade -n -N -PP postfix

and then you can actually *run* the installation by removing the `-n'
option from the portupgrade run.