Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:06:04 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages. Message-ID: <20050221100604.3b6a79f0.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <a1138db30502210250122287f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <a1138db30502210250122287f7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:50:12 +0000 Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I > have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not > packages. The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'. > > Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always > available when the ports are? According to freshports.org I should be > able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl. > > Unfortunately I am only allowed (by the girlfriend) to play with > FreeBSD on an old 1 gig disk and so I don't have the space to install > ports. Are there any other sources of precompiled packages which I > could use? Is there a way to install just the portion of the ports > tree which I need? Portcheckout might be useful in some fashion. /usr/ports/devel/portcheckout/pkg-descr reads: The portcheckout(1) reads the /usr/ports/INDEX file and checks-out a given port and its dependencies. This makes it easy to use the ports system without having a full and up-to-date /usr/ports tree. A typical use would be to connect to the Internet, possibly download a new INDEX and ports upgrade kit, download a port skeleton with portcheckout(1), and then build the port. I was thinking that some possibilities exist here for building a custom ports tree. I also have some older machines that take a long time to build INDEX as well as limited disk space. YMMV. I'm sure that the possibilities for shooting one's self the foot also exists ;-) Randy --
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