Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/09/2010 01:10:57, Devin Teske wrote: > HINT: If you created the package from the ports tree, you can say "make > describe" in the package's top-level port directory > (e.g. /usr/ports/pkg_origin/some_pkg). This will produce a line that can > be added to the INDEX file without much modificati

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Devin Teske
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:54 -0400, Rick Miller wrote: > I've created the package and copied it to the networked media. How do > I edit the INDEX file so that it knows how to get the file? HINT: If you created the package from the ports tree, you can say "make describe" in the package's top-level

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rick Miller writes: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, wrote: >>> >>>  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >>> packages directory of my own media? >> >> Sure it's easy.  When build a port you can is

Re: Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread vrwmiller
On Sep 24, 2010 10:54am, Rick Miller wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >> packages director

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-24 Thread Rick Miller
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, wrote: >> >>  Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the >> packages directory of my own media? > > Sure it's easy.  When build a port you can issue a make package command, or >

Re: Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-22 Thread vrwmiller
Thanks, Adam. This is most helpful. I appreciate it. On Sep 21, 2010 3:55pm, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I am performing PXE boots and automated installs of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with a custom sysinstall.cfg file which iden

Re: Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, wrote: > Hi all, > > I am performing PXE boots and automated installs of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE > with a custom sysinstall.cfg file which identifies packages that are to be > installed in addition to the distributions. We have need to install > compat6x-amd64 and I'

Media Packages Vs. Ports

2010-09-21 Thread vrwmiller
Hi all, I am performing PXE boots and automated installs of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with a custom sysinstall.cfg file which identifies packages that are to be installed in addition to the distributions. We have need to install compat6x-amd64 and I'd like to have this done during install. Unfo

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Frank Staals
On 12/23/09 18:39, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: Or set PACKAGESITE to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ See pkg_add(1) for details. This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actuall

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a > > 40G harddrive. > > pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated > fo

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice

Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Arthur Barlow
I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile Fir

Re: Initial install (packages vs. ports)

2003-12-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 06:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:13:23PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Just for clarification... > > > > The trade off I see with installing from CD vs. doing a minimal install > > is that when it comes time to upgrade it will cause more issues. >

Re: Initial install (packages vs. ports)

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:13:23PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Just for clarification... > > The trade off I see with installing from CD vs. doing a minimal install > is that when it comes time to upgrade it will cause more issues. > > By this I mean that if I do a minimal install and then lat

Initial install (packages vs. ports)

2003-12-20 Thread Trey Sizemore
Just for clarification... The trade off I see with installing from CD vs. doing a minimal install is that when it comes time to upgrade it will cause more issues. By this I mean that if I do a minimal install and then later install from ports it will be more seamless than installing first from