[nycbug-talk] pkgsrc on FreeBSD

[Marc Spitzer]

On 6/24/05, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> >> >On 6/24/05, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
> >> >> I'm setting up the FreeBSD with pkgsrc... but the bootstrap failed, can
> >> >> you make sense of this?
> >> >>
> >
> >try ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir=/var/db/pkgsrc
> 
> right! I miss read the instructions I was using...
> but still....
> 
> cd /usr/
> cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs.us.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
> set PATH=/usr/pkgsrc/bin:$PATH
> export PATH

do not need the PATH mods above as far as I know

> cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
> ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir=/var/db/pkgsrc --prefix=/usr/pkgsrc

--prefix is not where the pkgsrc tree is it where the compiled
packages go, defaults to /usr/pkg


> cp work/mk.conf.example /etc/mk.conf

Read README 
> context: this is a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE base install.
> 
> >ps why not just use ports?
> 
> I like the OS portable nature of pkgsrc.

ok

marc

> 
> // George
> 
> 
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