Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:56:21 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Meyer?= <Joerg-M@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: local copies of packages during their installation Message-ID: <4PLEAFAOLEBHCE9LGNMPJ53HBED1YUR.3e043ac5@merlin>
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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
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