Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:44:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Rob Lytle" <jan6146@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war Message-ID: <87bq1fbh6j.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com> (Rob Lytle's message of "Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700") References: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700, "Rob Lytle" <jan6146@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a
> dependency is already present. Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to
> install gigantic packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE
> metapackage, and my notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or
> thereabout. That is one hell of a long compile time. For this
> request I will just have to wait for FreeBSD 10.0.
Crashing is a bug. We should fix that. Having said this, I often use
portupgrade for this sort of thing.
After mounting the DVD, you can see what would be installed with
# mount /cdrom
# env PKG_PATH=/cdrom/packages/All portupgrade -n -N -PP postfix
and then you can actually *run* the installation by removing the `-n'
option from the portupgrade run.
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