From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 02:56:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D4116A401 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ashok.shrestha@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20BE43D46 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:56:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ashok.shrestha@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so279336nfc for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:56:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YqcIQw+bcKziLnWSdSX23WZGBLWpoTLelZKiDsID/irXT9VwRb5Y7KIjWP6u9Nt+UsQBFOmcCq8FAdo0mJxMkCrb20KOg+Fcni1bvGJIdONgJIyQZm99lG6XE3Jut/OnXR7p5YQOVUy3Cg4mU8MlAY823nQuHx4h7R0vjqaAEpI= Received: by 10.49.10.19 with SMTP id n19mr665921nfi; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.20.3 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:50:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <79e2026f0603291850t8d8b119r9fc949f93bdf0f8f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:50:40 -0500 From: "Ashok Shrestha" To: "Ashok Shrestha" , "FreeBSD Ports" In-Reply-To: <20060329205814.GB42066@isis.sigpipe.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> <20060329205814.GB42066@isis.sigpipe.cz> Cc: Subject: Re: portinstall question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:56:57 -0000 Thanx for the replies. I read that I need to specify PACKAGESITE in order to use an alternate repository. Is there a listing somewhere of available 3rd party repositories? fruitsalad.org seems to be having problems. On 3/29/06, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # ashok.shrestha@gmail.com / 2006-03-29 02:03:06 -0500: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0. > > > > portinstall -rRP x11/kde3 > > > > > > It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900) > > > > 1) > > The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that > > requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the > > blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default > > configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but > > that didn't work. > > that's BATCH=3Dwhatever in the environment or /etc/make.conf > > > 2) > > I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the > > dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case; > > it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally > > specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads > > and faster installs? > > -P means /try/ a package. You have most probably updated your > /usr/ports tree since 6.0, and whereas pkg_add uses the symlink > web on the ftp server to find the right package for your release > based on the package basename you give it, portupgrade -P will try > to fetch - from the server, using your current > /usr/ports to arrive at both values. > > -- > How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? > You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. > Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991 > -- Ashok Shrestha