From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 1:58:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80E037B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3A243EDE for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Joerg-M@web.de) Received: from [217.186.198.177] (helo=merlin) by smtp.web.de with smtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.93 #1) id 18PgOZ-0008Vr-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:58:11 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Meyer?= To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:56:21 +0100 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Reply-To: Joerg-M@web.de Message-Id: <4PLEAFAOLEBHCE9LGNMPJ53HBED1YUR.3e043ac5@merlin> Subject: local copies of packages during their installation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've been experimenting with FreeBSD since the day day before yesterday. Coming from the MS-world I am very impressed already. I installed the system from a CD created from the Mini-Iso-Image. Installing packages with pkg_add -r I would like to have local copies of the downloaded tarball in order to create an adapted CD with the packages I really need (just for the case of a new- or re-installation). Of course, all the depending package-tarballs should be download as well - otherwise I could also ftp them manually. Furthermore it would be really nice if the directory structure of the FTP-Server was duplicated locally as well. I know (from experimenting) that make package within the ports collection can archieve something similar (packages are created under /usr/ports/packages if existent). But following this strategy in my opinion has 3 major disadvantages: 1) Compiling packages like XFree86-4 takes quite a long time on my machnine. 2) It is impossible to create a package without installing it. In case of the package is installed already make returns an error telling me to deinstall the package first. 3) dependencies are not considered. make package in /usr/math/mupad only creates a mupad-package but no package for linux_base which is necessary for mupad. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Don't you make local copies of packages you install(ed)? Thanks for each advice in advance. Yours, Joerg Meyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message