Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:06:14 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do I update my ports tree? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOGENICJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20011218111314.A80967@blackhelicopters.org>
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Thanks for the pointer, When I cd /cdrom then cd ports I found the ports.tgz file. Them from that location I issued the tar command you showed below and It gave some error about some device not being defined. This is what I had to do to get it to work. The port system is suppose to live in /usr/port on the hard drive. I installed FBSD and did not select the option to install the ports collection. So FBSD install only builds the /usr directory. So to get the ports collection to build I had to copy the ports.tgz from the cdrom to the /usr directory. Then I issued the tar command with different flags than you used, and it built ok. Sure took a long time 15 minutes. Here are the commands I used. Cp /cdrom/ports/ports.tgz /usr # copy tar file from cd to hard drive Cd /usr # change into /usr directory Tar -xpzf ports.tgz # run tar to load ports system Rm ports.tgz # delete ports.tgz file from hard drive -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael Lucas Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:13 AM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I update my ports tree? Go to your install media (either the CDROM, or a FTP server with a directory for the release you installed.) You will find a "ports.tgz" that contains the ports tree for your release. tar -xzv ports.tgz will extract it. Voila! Instant ports tree. On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:08:53AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I did not install the ports during the /stand/sysinstall > process to create this FBSD system. Some time later I > wanted to install a port I got from the internet. I could > not install the port because my /usr/port directory tree > did not contain any of the files used by the port system. > > I there a way to get the necessary port system files > created with out having to load the complete port system > from the install CD? > > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall to load all the ports, > but the load ports collection option only comes during > the initial install of FBSD. I can not find a option to > load the ports on the post install configuration option. > There is a option for the packages but not the ports. > > How would I go about getting the complete ports section > off the install cd after the FBSD system is installed? > > Thanks Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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