Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:23:26 -0700 From: Fred Condo <fcondo@quinn.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working? Message-ID: <9D75F558-DD70-4E41-95C2-53808B021EC2@quinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20081010232131.GA53191@thought.org> References: <20081010232131.GA53191@thought.org>
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still > not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from > his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for > one thing, where I hack sendmail working via various kludges, he > set up imap. I had thought that was mostly for students.... > > He also filled me in on jails. Previously, I had my 1998 Kayak > doing DNS and mail and web solo. Jon created a jail and set > things up there. He used NFS to bring over things from a faster > computer. That's well and good; it makes sense to compile a > suite that takes days on sage [Kayak @ 400MHz] on my Dell8200 > [2.4GHZ]. A few days ago I realized that I was missing some > simple programs on sage. I went into ports: empty. Years ago > there was a standalone script that let you fix or tune things. > I thought it was on the hard drive as well as the CD set. > > Anybody? > > thanks for any clues! > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public > Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org You don't mention which version of FreeBSD you're using, but if it's at all recent, portsnap is your friend: # mkdir -p /usr/ports && portsnap fetch extract # Do this once to fetch and set up the ports collection initially Then add this to root's crontab: 1 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update If portsnap is not on your system, you should probably upgrade, but you could try the packagge: # pkg_add -r portsnap Also, if you're administering a bunch of jails, ezjail is also your friend. See http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/ (website is a bit out of date; 3.0 is released and in the ports collection).
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