Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:19:53 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> To: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving packages ? Message-ID: <20021219021953.GA74175@smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net> References: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net>
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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
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