Question about Ports and Packages
I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to 5-STABLE on Friday. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build dependancies missing for packages that I installed from packages. I assumed that it would catch this and not prompt me to fix stale dependacies like that. Along those same lines: I deleted a build dependancy before I decided to skip them, is there any way to fix that automatically? Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possibly OT: ports question/suggestion
Maybe this is not the best place for this (I'm not really sure) but would there be a way to setup the ports tree so that when a particular package is deinstalled that it's dependancies would be deinstalled if they were only installed becasue of the port in the first place. For example Package X depends on Packages A,B, and C. Package A was installed because you needed it for whatever reason but B and C were not. So I install Package X ( and consequently B and C) and when I decide to get rid of Package X for whatever reason it automagically knows that B and C were installed due to dependancies and would check if they were needed by other ports/packages and if not interactively go through and deinstall them. Interactively would be that it would prompt the user prior to deinstallation. Would you like to remove Package B, since it was installed as a dependancy? [y/N]?, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dealing with ports installations
I have a question. I attempted to install a port and when it failed I realized that it installed its dependancies that I don't need. ( I don't need the port because I found another that does what I need). Is there any way to safely go through and see what is installed, what depends on it and deinstall those that I don't need/use? Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving/Removing Filesystems
I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting the entire hard drive. I've updated the system to 5-STABLE and have installed many ports and I don't want to lose that (limited bandwidth). Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE
I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies as well. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:22:22 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop I have. I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight issue. The laptop doesn't have internet access. Nor is there any easy way to put it on the internet. How can I go about installing both packages and ports on this laptop? There are many packages that came with the CDs upon release. Those are always available to you. It seems as though you must have some method of getting to the internet. If you acquire packages or required distribution files for building a given port via the internet and then put it on transferrable media (like a CD-RW, for instance) you should be able to install them off of that media. For ports, you get the files that the given port requires (in /usr/ports/portcategory/portname/distinfo, IIRC) and put them in /usr/ports/distfiles and for packages, you simply get the package and pkg_add packageFile. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE
Fortunately, you can still use the ports collection for your offline machine, by using a machine which is connected and doing the make package-recursive or make fetch-recursive commands to grab all of the dependencies as well. Is there any way I can force it to fetch packages when they exist and distfiles for ports if a package doesn't exist? So in summary I have a list of applications I would like to install on a machine not connected to a network. I am looking for the easiest method of fetching the packages from a server and putting them on CDs so I can move them to the stand-alone machine. For the one or two apps I use that don't have packages I would like to fetch all the necesary distfiles to be able to install those few apps from ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE
I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop I have. I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight issue. The laptop doesn't have internet access. Nor is there any easy way to put it on the internet. How can I go about installing both packages and ports on this laptop? Thanks in advance. Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1 Install Problems
I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a new computer. The motherboard is an Asus P4P800-E with a P4 2.4 GHz. If i boot with ACPI it gets to the point where it says Writing partition information to drive ... and just hangs no messages or anything. If I disable ACPI it panics during hardware probing. Anybody use this MB and have any clue what might be wrong? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Audio?
I am setting up a new computer and the motherboard I am using has integrated audio. It says it is Realtek ALC850 does anyone know if it is supported by FreeBSD? If so, what driver should I use? The motherboard is the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shared Partition?
I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
