[nycbug-talk] what happened to darwinports?

[Amitai Schlair]

On May 9, 2007, at 1:33 AM, David Rio Deiros wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:06:42PM -0400, Amitai Schlair wrote:
>> You can also NFS-mount pkgsrc from somewhere else, if you have a
>> suitable somewhere else. But the disk image approach isn't too bad.
>> You only need enough case-sensitive disk image for pkgsrc itself;
>> almost all packages can build and install on case-insensitive
>> filesystems.
>
> Apparently the instructions in bootstrap/README.Darwin put everything
> in the disk image.

At the time the instructions were written, it was worth being that  
conservative. They should probably be updated.

> I guess you would replace these:
>
> $ sudo ./bootstrap \
>     --prefix /Volumes/NetBSD/pkg \
>     --pkgdbdir /Volumes/NetBSD/pkgdb
>
> with something like this?:
>
> $ sudo ./bootstrap \
>     --prefix /Users/myhome/pkgsrc/pkg \
>     --pkgdbdir /Users/myhome/pkgsrc/pkgdb

Sure, if that's where you want stuff to go. I use:

$ sudo ./bootstrap \
     --prefix /usr/pkg \
     --pkgdbdir /usr/pkg/.pkgdb
     [...]