From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 15:06:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE41E16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:06:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FCB43D48 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:06:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from [204.215.32.27] (helo=kt.weeble.com) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D3F8P-0003RN-K8; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:06:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hoYwTlNT6oSH0lp6pA3G0WlTxaO3koVNWaYOVsX8l6zBrc32F4DE2wXqklgbtr94; Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:06:04 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: Paul Richards Message-Id: <20050221100604.3b6a79f0.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 96132b9c1759af1df21c5f5255d6c174239a348a220c260931ca14a237d75e682a4834bb972570d1666fa475841a1c7a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 204.215.32.27 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:06:06 -0000 On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:50:12 +0000 Paul Richards wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I > have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not > packages. The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'. > > Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always > available when the ports are? According to freshports.org I should be > able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl. > > Unfortunately I am only allowed (by the girlfriend) to play with > FreeBSD on an old 1 gig disk and so I don't have the space to install > ports. Are there any other sources of precompiled packages which I > could use? Is there a way to install just the portion of the ports > tree which I need? Portcheckout might be useful in some fashion. /usr/ports/devel/portcheckout/pkg-descr reads: The portcheckout(1) reads the /usr/ports/INDEX file and checks-out a given port and its dependencies. This makes it easy to use the ports system without having a full and up-to-date /usr/ports tree. A typical use would be to connect to the Internet, possibly download a new INDEX and ports upgrade kit, download a port skeleton with portcheckout(1), and then build the port. I was thinking that some possibilities exist here for building a custom ports tree. I also have some older machines that take a long time to build INDEX as well as limited disk space. YMMV. I'm sure that the possibilities for shooting one's self the foot also exists ;-) Randy --