Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:28 -0700 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: john.haraden@yahoo.com Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg Message-ID: <B9B9D28A-11DC-44EB-B87C-6FC3E94999C2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <F28EE24B-85F1-4164-A304-E2F5A288E169@yahoo.com> References: <F28EE24B-85F1-4164-A304-E2F5A288E169@yahoo.com>
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On Jun 22, 2015, at 1:12 PM, john.haraden--- via freebsd-questions = <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > (1). I have a work station with two Xeon processors. > (2) I have installed FreeBSD 10.1 > (3). I have no internet connection. > (4) When I tried to use pkg to make my system fully functional, the = system declared pkg was not in the base system, I would need to fetch it = over the Internet. That is impossible since I do not have internet = capability. You get a fully functioning FreeBSD system from the .iso images. If you = want to install external / third-party software, then using ports or pkg = via the Internet is a good solution, but it is not the only option. > (5) Is there some other way for me to get pkg? Sure. You can download pkg and the packages you want to have it install = onto a USB drive, burn them to a CD/DVD, etc. Note that the FreeBSD project provides a larger image with some common packages included as a DVD = image, ie: FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso > (6) Why was something as basic as pkg not included in the base = system? Packages and ports are not part of the base system by definition. I've got production firewalls based upon FreeBSD still running at = clients which never needed or had any additional third-party software installed on = them, for example.... > After all, the system is supposed to be self-contained? It is. FreeBSD is self-hosting and can be bootstrapped from source via the included compiler toolchain. > (7) I tried to install my old version 5.3, but the hardware would not = accept it. Good. You'd be missing a decade worth of security fixes, if nothing = else. > (8) Do I have any alternative to discarding the new hardware and = FreeBSD? You have many alternatives, but feel free to select the most = melodramatic option if doing so pleases you. Regards, --=20 -Chuck
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