Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:28:19 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Producing a binary install Message-ID: <44B3EDC3.7010104@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <44B3E1AD.3080409@tania.servebbs.org> References: <44B3E1AD.3080409@tania.servebbs.org>
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Bob wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > First I would like to thank all of you who helped me out on my > "Java-Hell" issue. I now have a working native jdk.1.4.2. > > It took a bit of doing, and many hours of compile time, but it finally > worked. It did bomb once, about 4 hours into the compile, and demanded I > do a kldload linprocfs, followed by a mount -t linprocfs linprocfs > /compat/linux/proc, claiming it needed a proc fs to compile. I assume > this was needed for the compile-time, and not for the run-time??? > > Anyway, java now works in all browsers. > > My next task here is to upgrade another workstation to freebsd. The > woman I live with wants to dump her Linux, and have what I have as well :-) > > My question: > > I will be installing her machine mainly from pre-compiled packages, as > it is not a dual-processor fast box like mine is. > > Java, and other packages are not available in pre-compiled form. Since I > already compiled Java, is there a way to produce a binary-install on my > machine, and install it on her machine? Simply tar up the dir perhaps? > > We have limited bandwidth (DSL) and so it would make sense to do a basic > install for her over the net, and then do the rest of the install > locally from stuff I compiled. Not everything, just BIG stuff like Java, > KDE, Gnome the browsers.... > > TIA > Bob > There is a binary of Java at http://www.freebsd.org/java/, but I haven't tried it. Otherwise doing a 'make package' after the port has been installed will create a package for you. You should then be able to install the package on the other machine using pkg_add. HTH, Micah
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