The package manager

mariourk

mariourk

I managed to install FreeBSD on my server and fiddle around a bit. So far it looks promising.

I've been reading several documents about Ports and I'm still missing some features.

I come from a Gentoo background. Portage, the Gentoo package manager, offers the ability to search for packages. Ports seems to be able to do this, but in a very limited and spartan way.

Portage can show all the packages that will be installed as dependencies, before actually installing a package. Can I do this with Ports?

The mayor downside of Gentoo is the fact that everything has to be compiled. I was kind of hoping to abandon this on my new server. But until now, All software I installed had to be compiled. I was under the impression that FreeBSD also offered the option the use precompiled packages?

I hope someone can get me on the right track and help me master package management with FreeBSD :)
 
mariourk said:
Portage can show all the packages that will be installed as dependencies, before actually installing a package. Can I do this with Ports?
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[cmd=]make build-depends-list[/cmd]
[cmd=]make run-depends-list[/cmd]

See ports(7).

The mayor downside of Gentoo is the fact that everything has to be compiled. I was kind of hoping to abandon this on my new server. But until now, All software I installed had to be compiled. I was under the impression that FreeBSD also offered the option the use precompiled packages?
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Handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports
 
mariourk said:
The mayor downside of Gentoo is the fact that everything has to be compiled. I was kind of hoping to abandon this on my new server. But until now, All software I installed had to be compiled. I was under the impression that FreeBSD also offered the option the use precompiled packages?
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[cmd=""]man pkg_add[/cmd]
 
mariourk said:
I come from a Gentoo background. Portage, the Gentoo package manager, offers the ability to search for packages. Ports seems to be able to do this, but in a very limited and spartan way.
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Install ports-mgmt/psearch. It should handle all of your searching needs.

The mayor downside of Gentoo is the fact that everything has to be compiled. I was kind of hoping to abandon this on my new server. But until now, All software I installed had to be compiled. I was under the impression that FreeBSD also offered the option the use precompiled packages?
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pkg_add(1) is the binary packages installation tool. There are several pkg_* tools, each with their own man page.

And the popular ports management tools (ports-mgmt/portupgrade and ports-mgmt/portmaster) include support for binary packages.

And, if you want a packages-only setup, you can use the pkg_upgrade tool that comes with sysutils/bsdadminscripts.
 
I tried [cmd=]make build-depends-list[/cmd] before installing ports-mgmt/portupgrade. It showed Ruby-1.8 as depencency, but it also installed Perl. Why didn't I see that in the dependency list?

When I try to install any package with [cmd=]pkg_add -r packagename[/cmd] the system says it can't fetch the package and quits. What am I doing wrong? :S

Can pkg_add show a list of all dependencies it intends to install, before actually installing a package?
 
mariourk said:
When I try to install any package with [cmd=]pkg_add -r packagename[/cmd] the system says it can't fetch the package and quits. What am I doing wrong? :S
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What exactly does it say?

Can pkg_add show a list of all dependencies it intends to install, before actually installing a package?
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pkg_add will pull in all dependencies that would compiling ports pull in.
 
bbzz said:
What exactly does it say?
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Code: 
[root@eddard /usr/ports/www/apache22]# pkg_add -r apache22
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/apache22.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/apache22.tbz' by URL
 
The packages-9-current directory doesn't exist. Set PACKAGESITE.
 
This is what I did:
Code: 
export PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/

After this, pkg_add started to fetch the packages! :)

I'm wondering if this action permanently changes the PACKAGESITE variable. Or just for this session? If so, how can I set this variable permanently? :q
 
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