From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 29 11:30:21 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A6D115CA60 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93677845FD for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1543491020; x=1546083020; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=/kUdONaO7PKaHMFn8aq7AQvFIxUeRHTuyvhsnzClVVs=; b=PnMvwomuumV9uHYJnL04Xt+jrWMrX3qwgDfVr2EyBbJH6oFJB3TSkXKsYmF4PYpFmPDFMPds5hYxkgkgv8I5dO2Lls1nfSNDbcH/2ANGb/V8U5XHKZN5VAb6J5E9Vo/35ZNQF6HUsoWB0Q1SfmgGmk3WlFJi5Ek68wQhqLtYF+E= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xYTEwMDAwMDExZjE0ZGYuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com (r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.179.12]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:30:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:30:06 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1gSKWC-0000Tc-GX; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:04 +0000 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:04 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Polytropon Cc: gahn , gahn via freebsd-questions Subject: Re: install binary packages without pkg Message-Id: <20181129113004.7b750510ac512705140a04e2@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com> <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 93677845FD X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.83 / 15.00]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mxbh.socketlabs.com,mxbsg.socketlabs.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.66)[-0.656,0]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.18)[ip: (-0.42), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(-0.21), asn: 7381(-0.17), country: US(-0.09)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.995,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[yahoo.com] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:30:21 -0000 On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > It might be possible that you examine the package content, and then > manually extract them, so its content gets written to the correct > location. This however does _not_ deal with keeping the system's > records about installed packages (the package database) consistent > with the actually installed software! Again, note that those are > in different formats. However even if you do that there's little chance that the binaries will run unless thay have no dependencies on system provided libraries. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith