Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:50:58 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool
Message-ID:  <20111229215058.GA27847@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <1325183038.93200.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References:  <4EFC9745.3050901@freebsd.org> <1325183038.93200.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> How am I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad of
> dependencies) from now on?

I strongly recommend using portmaster.  The manpage is very dense but
to start with, use something like the following (I'm just picking one
port at random, pkg_cutleaves, to install):

  portmaster -PP ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves

mcl



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20111229215058.GA27847>