Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:00:26 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getfreebsdstuff [-cmd|-pkg|-port|-dist|-vVERS|...] thing ... Message-ID: <199812151900.LAA14276@deal1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:40:20 PST." <Pine.A41.3.95b.981215102749.148012B-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>
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In message <Pine.A41.3.95b.981215102749.148012B-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>, "K. Marsh" cleopede: >On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >> Is there a utility with the above functionality? That is, a single >> command-line invocation that will fetch, compile if necessary, and >> install one or more commands, distributions, packages, or ports? >> >> I have installed packages and ports, but the process is interactive >> and tends to fail--I am probably doing things the "hard way" due to >> lack of knowledge and would appreciate a steer toward the easy way. > >Gosh, Greg, I didn't think it could be much easier than pkg_add. Well, you are probably correct. How do you use pkg_add to add a distribution or port? And also, how do you fetch a package or port if you don't know or care what version to get, or don't know the name given to the port or package containing a given command? >If you're having problems, my guess is that you are trying to add new >packages/ports from the web to an older installation of FreeBSD, so the >version numbers of libraries, distfiles, etc are off. Yes, I've run into this. I thought that the notion of prerequisites was supposed to deal with this, at least for ports. >I've always >had best results by using only the packages and ports that are on the >CD-ROM with the version of FreeBSD I'm running, but in a pinch, I get the >new port from the web first, and then run make on it. I haven't used >packages as much, but from what I've read, they are even *easier*. This made more sense before things were split among several CDs. I have sometimes had great difficulty (probably because of stupidity on my part) trying to install a port from the same-version CD set, when resources were needed from more than one CD. For one thing, it was difficult to find out which CD something was on, especially when I wasn't certain of the name of the containing package. >Also note that a port will fail in short order if you don't have the >associated distfile, and if it isn't available at the ftp sites listed in >the Makefile. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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