Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:05:25 -0300 From: Rodrigo Gonzalez <rjgonzale@estrads.com.ar> To: "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add Message-ID: <20100630220525.28b9c82d@rjgonzale-laptop> In-Reply-To: <428298.49145.qm@web112007.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:00:34 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com> wrote: > Though this will not be the focus of my question. Lots of ports are > being created for FreeBSD and none submitted. I don't know why. > > My problem arises when trying to install one of these which is put > together quite well. pkg_add -r http://site/something.tbz, or > pkg_add something.tbz doesn't work for the dependencies. So how do I > tell pkg_add to fetch the first pkg from one site and the rest from > the main sites? It is available in source but the system is void of > pkg's at the moment and with the 1ghz processor and 512mb ram could > take quite a while. And the funny part is it will work perfectly if > I just place it in ports/multimedia. > > Darren Johnston > > My advise is installing portupgrade port and using portinstall -P [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwr6dUACgkQZHmnrc0PV8+j3QCcC4TyitjuclpvARkO59A7pkiM MmQAnR47hs1wDUeGveHYsHl3fq3Sp0qw =M0Xw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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