On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:11:55 +0100, IMAP List Administration wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just installed 9.0-RELEASE (amd64) in a KVM/Qemo VM on debian linux,
> which
> is extremely painful because of the abysmal I/O performance, and would like to
> build the virtio-kmod. After unpacking src.txz (xz -c
> /cd/usr/freebsd-dist/src.txz | tar xf -) I did the following:
>
> # cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtio-kmo
> # make clean install
>
> at this point I saw port names such as perl, tcl, neon, sqlite, etc fly past.
You can use the command
# make missing
to get a list of which dependencies need to be installed.
See "man 7 ports" for other targets that might be useful.
> Apparently the ports system satisfies dependencies from the ports tree by
> default.
Correct. Dependencies are resolved and installed (usually
by compiling them from source, installing and registering
them), then the initial build is returned to.
> Since I have not updated anything, it seems reasonable, and much less painful
> to
> satisfy the dependencies using the packages on the installation DVD, which is
> mounted on /cd.
If the default options of the dependency ports are fine for
you, this should be no problem.
> I tried setting PKG_PATH to "/cd/packages" and to "/cd/packages/All", but
> when I
> simply try to test using, for example, "pkg_add perl" pkg_add simply says
> "can't
> stat package file".
Change CWD to the location of the packages (on CD) and
try again. According to "man pkg_add":
If the packages are not found in the current
working directory, pkg_add will search them in
each directory named by PKG_PATH.
If there's still an error, can you provide the command
you entered plus the output? Maybe adding -v helps to
give some more information.
> I'm guessing it would be pointless to try to use a (remote) URL in
> PACKAGEROOT,
> as the "-r" flag *must* be give in order for pkg_add to honor the setting, and
> god knows how the ports system calls pkg_add, if at all.
The ports do not use pkg_add.
However, using a tool like portmaster or portinstall can
help you using binary packages (options -P and -PP).
If you use pkg_add -r, some "more magic" will be applied
to form the proper URI for fetching the packages (e. g.
architecture and OS version may be considered).
> I had a long look in the docs, but this stuff doesn't *seem* to be documented
> :(
I don't remember any particular documentation regarding
this procedure. The pkg_add command should automatically
install dependencies (option -i to prevent).
> Is it possible to get the ports system to satisfy dependencies using the
> packages from the installation DVD? If so, how?????
I think that's possible; I hope you got some inspiration.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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