From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 17:56:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from havoc.scorched.com (kythorn2.upper.ul.warwick.net [208.228.96.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A2837B5C2 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kythorn@scorched.com) Received: from CHAOS (chaos.scorched.com [208.228.96.34]) by havoc.scorched.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA13276 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:59:34 -0500 Message-ID: <002f01bf88a1$bc58c670$2260e4d0@CHAOS> From: "Jay Oliver" To: Subject: Re: How to manage "packages" after installation, that were installed DURING installation Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:58:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can only speak for using sysinstall for the actual installation, booting off CD. I have not used it to install anything after I had completed installation, I was using the ports system for that. After I installed (And I installed a _lot_ of packages during installation, I was curious, and this is just an experimental machine), the only package in /var/db/pkg, pkg_info, or pkg_version, was linux_base, and I believe I may have installed that in the post installation process of sysinstall. There was _nothing_ else listed. However, I can attest that I have many other things installed. The core XFree 3.3.6 distribution package, all manner of Xservers, all the packages from the games distribution set, etc, TCL8.2.3, ncftp-2.4.3, bash 2.03, ZSH, sshd, python, the list goes on and on and on. There are too many installed packages for me to believe it's a flaw in the packages themselves, rather I think the problem may stem from the usage of these "Distribution Sets". Upon installation, I merely hit "All" when it asked me what distribution sets I wanted, and I believe that in and of itself may be the problem. Going in and installing a package from the menu option under "Distributions", which is "Packages" lets me install the same packages, and they register themselves fine. If there is any other information I could provide to be useful, I will be glad to do so. This was a 3.4-RELEASE install, off the ISO image available on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org The only problem I have with this, is I'm unable to see what easily versions of packages I have installed, and I have no automated, centralized way to remove them whatsoever. If I did something wrong in installation, please advise me of so, maybe I should pick no "distribution sets" at all, and install only the packages I desire? Also, reinstalling the same packages I _already_ have installed, gets them registered. As I said, I think this is some problem with packages not registering during install process, or using distribution sets option. I may be wrong, thats just the trend I'm noticing. - Jay Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message