From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 23 19:52:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (slwag2p12.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FC614D68 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA24524; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:49:33 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:49:33 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: "Timothy T. Smith" Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using sysinstall to add ports? Message-ID: <19990424124932.A24494@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: <2.2.32.19990424022909.007128e8@mail.v-com.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990424022909.007128e8@mail.v-com.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 at 19:29:09 -0700, Timothy T. Smith wrote: > First let me say, that I usually just run the make in the skeleton > of the port I'm interested and normally that's about it. > > But, I decided to use Sysintsall this time round. > > Hmmm. Bad choice? > > Well, I go through to try to install a port (via FTP) and it > certainly looks like it's downloading something and doing a pkg_add > and all, but after all is said and done I have nada. > > Looking at the ports menu, there is an X that marks the port. So, > something thinks it's installed. But I certainly can't find it. No > tarball to be found. Running make, it wants to download the tarball > again. Correct, it's a _package_ being installed, not a port.. two separate animals =) > Maybe I don't understand what's supposed to be happening when I use > Sysinstall to install a port. I tried pouring through the site, but > couldn't find anything to really describe the process. Just a lot > about using pkg_add, which I haven't needed to use...yet. You're not installing ports through sysinstall, you're installing a package. It's doing everything it's supposed to do, just not what you're expecting =) > So, in reagard to Sysinstall to install a port.... > > 1. What's it really do? Installs the binary package, not a port. > 2. How can I verify that it really did it? Run what you installed. > 3. What am I expected to do afterwards? Run what you installed. > 4. How can I tell what ports are REALLY installed? ls /var/db/pkg -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message