From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 18 18:20: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39C537B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from smnolde.com (c-24-98-61-182.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.61.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B82E43ED4 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@smnolde.com) Received: from [192.168.10.7] (helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18OqI2-000LFJ-00; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:19:58 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18OqHx-000JSu-00; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:19:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:19:53 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: Sam Drinkard Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving packages ? Message-ID: <20021219021953.GA74175@smnolde.com> References: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG_Fingerprint: 0BD6 DDB4 2978 EB60 E0C8 33F2 BC34 9087 D869 AB48 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Drinkard(sam@wa4phy.net)@2002.12.16 11:58:27 +0000: > I've run across some items I don't particularly want to build due to all > the various dependencies, and thought perhaps just doing an install of > packages. I'm running 4.7-Stable. When I try to grab the packages I > want, it fails (don't recall the error message, but I believe > "unknown"). I've set the version to be 4.7-Release. Is there some > other tweak I need to do to be able to retrieve packages on a -stable > system from the -release versions? > > Thanks.. > > Sam In the port directory you can try: "make fetch-recursive" which will fetch the port and its dependencies "make fetch-recursive-list" which will show you which packages it will try to d/l And pkg_add -r will download and install the packages and their dependencies, if necessary. For more make targets, read /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message