Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:07:21 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net>, Matt Douhan <matt@hasta.se> Cc: amd64 freebsd <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SV: Packages/Ports problem Message-ID: <200312141607.21395.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD87B7C.6050608@texoma.net> References: <IIEBLFJCECCIAJIHMKNPMEFECCAA.matt@hasta.se> <3FD87B7C.6050608@texoma.net>
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On Thursday 11 December 2003 06:13 am, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > Matt Douhan wrote: > >>Is there any way to tell what all will get installed when I make > >>something? Or do I need to take care of dependencies myself? > >>I'm used to Debian and Gentoo and not familiar with how FreeBSD handles > >>dependencies and such. > > > > It is handled automatically by the ports system > > Good. :) > > I know FreeBSD was much of the inspiration for the Gentoo main developer. > > >>Peter has cvsup-without-gui on his FreeBSD site. > >>I just haven't been able to get it. > >>To my understanding I currently only have the ftp program on my machine. > >>I don't know how to use it to get the package. > > > > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > > That has failed with something like no such file on server error. > > But I'm about to do a fresh install this afternoon/evening after I redo > my partions and will try again. That would be because the port for cvsup hasn't been finished yet. I do have a hacked up cvsup binary that might be enough to get you going. fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz pkg_add cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz Known problems: you cannot use compression. If you set 'compress' on any of your supfiles, it will crash. -Peter
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