Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:35:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing CD packages to HD? Message-ID: <14773.33577.842372.439782@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <6536344@toto.iv>
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Konrad Heuer writes:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > I now have a computer with enough HD to copy all packages that
> > come on the 4.1 CD
> > How do I go about it? My only concern are the indexes. I know I
> > could just copy the files, but I am concerned that the packages
> > may not be right if I just copy.
> If you really want - this loop should do:
>
> cd /cdrom/packages/All
> foreach pkg ( *.tgz )
> pkg_add $pkg
> end
This is *not* a good idea. Many of the packages have multiple
variations that will overwrite each other in strange ways if you do
that.
Besides, I assumed he wanted the *package* files on disk, not the
packages installed (a "copy" of them). You an do that by copying all
the files in packages/All on each disk to a single directory. The
index files aren't used by the software, so this still works.
> > Also where are the "distfiles" for the ports? Where these
> > replaced by the packages?
> No; the "distfiles" are on CD #4.
Not on the 4.1 RELEASE CD set, they're not:
guru$ cat /cdrom/README.TXT
You are looking at CD #4. It contains:
packages extra packages - to use, simply mount this CDROM and
``cd packages/All; pkg_add desired-package.tgz''
OR type ``/stand/sysinstall configPackages'' and
select CDROM as the media type (in which case you do NOT
need to mount the CDROM first, just put it in the drive).
I believe the 4.0-RELEASE cdrom was equally damaged. Personally, I
*hate* this. Since I build ports with LOCALBASE=/usr/opt, the packages
are useless. Since the distfiles can be used to create the packages,
but not vice versa, this is a loss in functionality. My use of the
things is now restricted to dealing with -questions (as above), and
making copies for friends who otherwise wouldn't look at FreeBSD.
<mike
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