Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:22:12 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jes=FAs=20Arn=E1iz?= <arnaiz@encomix.es>, "FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <01011518221208.38397@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus> References: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus>
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On Monday January 15, 2001 05:45, Jesús Arnáiz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've FreeBSD 4.2 installed. I try to install some ports doing this:
>
> # mount /cdrom
> # cd /usr/ports
> # make
Do you really want to do this? It will install ALL of the ports. This
will amount to *many* GB of disk space used. Does anybody have a
current gues of how much? Isn't it over 20GB?
You probably want to just install specific ports as needed by cd'ing
into the specific directory and using make install. But I don't know
your situation, so I may be wrong.
> But every time I see it try to find the .tar.gz file on a ftp site.
> It don't look on my CD.
Is the CD mounted on /cdrom ??
according to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk (which I believe is the
authority on this)
-------
# Search CDROM first if mounted, symlink instead of copy if
# FETCH_SYMLINK_DISTFILES is set
CD_MOUNTPT?= /cdrom
.if exists(${CD_MOUNTPT}/ports/distfiles)
-------
I think the only cd that has the distfiles in it that ports looks for
is the ports CD. Those are only made for Powerpak's, of which none has
been made for 4.2 I believe. Hopefully someone will correct me here.
Some of the files may be on the install CD, I don't know, I never
install packages from the CD after initial install. If either of the
above cases is correct, mounting the CD should work.
Tim
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