Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:04 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>, gahn via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: install binary packages without pkg Message-ID: <20181129113004.7b750510ac512705140a04e2@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com> <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > It might be possible that you examine the package content, and then > manually extract them, so its content gets written to the correct > location. This however does _not_ deal with keeping the system's > records about installed packages (the package database) consistent > with the actually installed software! Again, note that those are > in different formats. However even if you do that there's little chance that the binaries will run unless thay have no dependencies on system provided libraries. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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