Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:02:53 -0700 From: "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <freebsd@gushi.org> To: Ryan Richter <ryan@2solnu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: offline install of perl Message-ID: <71781684-7053-4F2D-A36A-8238E917150D@gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <20220712200606.GE13596@2solnu.net> References: <20220712200606.GE13596@2solnu.net>
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> On Jul 12, 2022, at 1:06 PM, Ryan Richter <ryan@2solnu.net> wrote: > > I have a machine with a fresh install of freebsd 13.1 which will never > be conected to the internet. I need to install perl on it (nothing > else), but I can only transfer files by usb drive from linux machines. > > This seems like a simple thing, but I've been looking at documentation > for a long time now and I can't find anything. pkg looks relevant, but > it is not actually installed, and anyway I can't find the url of any > perl 5 package for 13.1 (the pkg servers seems to have directory > listings disabled). > > If anyone could direct me toward a simple way to do this I would > appreciate it very much. Some sort of pkg-web machine would sure be useful, especially because you have the issue of dependency resolution. What I’d do, personally, is spin up a quickie FreeBSD vm somewhere, run “pkg install perl5” and then grab everything that pkg drops into the /var/cache/pkg, as that would cover all the dependencies as well. Note that that should also get you a copy of the pkg installable itself, with which to bootstrap pkg. In the “old days” of FreeBSD cdroms disc2 was what had all this stuff, but I see no disc2 images in the FTP site. That said, DVD1 may still have some of that, though, and should be *fairly* install-complete for a common language like perl. (That said, it’s up to the user to figure out how to use those on an already-installed system, the old sysinstall tool was better for doing post-install configuration than BSDinstall is). -Dan
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