From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 22 18:48:31 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA25214 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 18:48:31 -0800 Received: from rivers.oscs.montana.edu (rivers.oscs.montana.edu [192.31.215.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA25208 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 18:48:29 -0800 Received: by rivers.oscs.montana.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14156; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 19:47:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 19:47:46 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Boerner To: Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: non-initial installation In-Reply-To: <91950322163219/0006619934PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I found installs from the CD to be a bit unattractive. Hence, I pull everything from the network. I like haveing source code, so I: cd /usr/ports NOTE: You may need to set the file protections levels. ftp freebsd.cdrom.com cd /pub/FreeBSD/ binary get ports.tar.gz bye gunzip ports.tar.gz cd .. tar -xvf ports/ports.tar An alternate methode is to look in the CD under packages. Find the package that you want and perform a pkg_add . This will create the ports directory on your system in it's full glory (This is really not that large). I then CD into the ports direcotry containing the stuff that I need/want to build and perform a make. ***NOTE TO SOMEONE WHO KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THESE PORT INSTALL METHODES: I believe that this not only build the files but installs (make install) them. However they do not show up with pkg_info -a. Does anyone know how to/where to fix this at? This and fixing the uemacs port are my next too little assignments. I hope that this helps. On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Mitchell Ackerman wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I have installed the base operating system on my PC without any of the optional > packages. The initial installation was performed using cpio.flp. What is the > method for installing additional software from CDROM at this point? > > Any suggestions whould be much appreciated, thanks, Mitchell. > > > >