Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:32:58 +0200 From: Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make install a port, but with a package? Message-ID: <9n13o4-826.ln1@news.hansenet.de> References: <200707310307.l6V378Ca028454@app.auscert.org.au> <46AEC854.3070508@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > Make install will always compile from source. You could however use: > > setenv PACKAGESITE > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ > > or > > export > PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ > (if you use bash) > > and then do pkg_add, will get you latest packages build from the -STABLE > ports. You don't even have to worry about specific version numbers (i.e. > pkg_add -r bash instead of pkg_add -r bash-3.2.17_1) so this is a close > to a "port tree simulation" as possible. The package may still be > lagging a few versions behind the port however (or in some cases may not > even exist). What about the variable PKG_SITES? Once I found (in sime wiki or howto) this entry: export PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ export PKG_SITES=ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/ what about that variable PKG_SITES? what is it for? Heino
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