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'

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: 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: 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

2010-09-25 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: 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: 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