From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 16:07:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF1716A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819C243D1D for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4321F2A8DF for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7A92C1AC for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBF07Mup034465; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBF07LBJ034464; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: Jimmie Houchin , Matt Douhan Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FD87B7C.6050608@texoma.net> In-Reply-To: <3FD87B7C.6050608@texoma.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312141607.21395.peter@wemm.org> cc: amd64 freebsd Subject: Re: SV: Packages/Ports problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:07:24 -0000 On Thursday 11 December 2003 06:13 am, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > Matt Douhan wrote: > >>Is there any way to tell what all will get installed when I make > >>something? Or do I need to take care of dependencies myself? > >>I'm used to Debian and Gentoo and not familiar with how FreeBSD handles > >>dependencies and such. > > > > It is handled automatically by the ports system > > Good. :) > > I know FreeBSD was much of the inspiration for the Gentoo main developer. > > >>Peter has cvsup-without-gui on his FreeBSD site. > >>I just haven't been able to get it. > >>To my understanding I currently only have the ftp program on my machine. > >>I don't know how to use it to get the package. > > > > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > That has failed with something like no such file on server error. > > But I'm about to do a fresh install this afternoon/evening after I redo > my partions and will try again. That would be because the port for cvsup hasn't been finished yet. I do have a hacked up cvsup binary that might be enough to get you going. fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz pkg_add cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz Known problems: you cannot use compression. If you set 'compress' on any of your supfiles, it will crash. -Peter