Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 11:59:52 +0700 From: Paul Darius <paul@ranahminang.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install or download port collection? Message-ID: <CAAxOLAQPUhs3ePEDhRYYBO3heewdsfukbfNOEcFWxjWYLxuFxg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1399044637.22079.177.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <CAAxOLARTWLXP4XCUNaLzV3aYJXK6f8ptQmv%2BUO82CKywUf5hQg@mail.gmail.com> <5363B2B8.7010104@ceetonetechnology.com> <1399044637.22079.177.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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I just download the ports.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz can it be used ? no arch dependency on the source ? TIA P On 5/2/14, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:59 -0400, George Rosamond wrote: >> Paul Darius: >> > hi there, >> > >> > i just new to fbsd and rpi. >> > >> > the fbsd image downloaded from >> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20140427-r265018.img.bz2 >> > and the image successfully dd into sdcard 32GB. >> > >> > surprise that I can not find sysinstall, but at the end I find >> > bsdinstall >> > question is, how to install or download the port collections ? >> > i try using ftp and http direct but no luck >> >> >> Paul: >> >> The likely best route to install the ports tree is to use portsnap(8). >> >> From there, you can use whatever tools you prefer... subversion, svnup, >> etc to update the source, portmaster or whatever to update the ports. >> >> George >> > > Portsnap is a painful many-hour process on an RPi. I remember trying it > last year and it ran for hours and always crashed or panicked before > completion. Hopefully we've got the crash/panic stuff worked out these > days, but the time is still going to be bad. > > I prefer to keep a master ports tree on an nfs server and just mount it > on arm boards as needed, and build ports with WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp. If > you're not set up for NFS (and don't want to be) another viable option > might be to do the portsnap process on a faster machine with the results > placed onto a usb drive that you can attach to the rpi. > > -- Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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