Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 09:30:37 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: install or download port collection? Message-ID: <1399044637.22079.177.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <5363B2B8.7010104@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <CAAxOLARTWLXP4XCUNaLzV3aYJXK6f8ptQmv%2BUO82CKywUf5hQg@mail.gmail.com> <5363B2B8.7010104@ceetonetechnology.com>
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On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:59 -0400, George Rosamond wrote: > Paul Darius: > > hi there, > > > > i just new to fbsd and rpi. > > > > the fbsd image downloaded from > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20140427-r265018.img.bz2 > > and the image successfully dd into sdcard 32GB. > > > > surprise that I can not find sysinstall, but at the end I find bsdinstall > > question is, how to install or download the port collections ? > > i try using ftp and http direct but no luck > > > Paul: > > The likely best route to install the ports tree is to use portsnap(8). > > From there, you can use whatever tools you prefer... subversion, svnup, > etc to update the source, portmaster or whatever to update the ports. > > George > Portsnap is a painful many-hour process on an RPi. I remember trying it last year and it ran for hours and always crashed or panicked before completion. Hopefully we've got the crash/panic stuff worked out these days, but the time is still going to be bad. I prefer to keep a master ports tree on an nfs server and just mount it on arm boards as needed, and build ports with WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp. If you're not set up for NFS (and don't want to be) another viable option might be to do the portsnap process on a faster machine with the results placed onto a usb drive that you can attach to the rpi. -- Ian
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