On Tue, 12 May 2009, travis+ml-pyt...@subspacefield.org wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:10:46PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > Why don't you use packages? > > I just tried, and that solved my problem. > > I tried to install python from there and it worked just fine. > > I liked the ports system but understand Theo's points. > > I have this script which basically does a lot of post-installation > work, installing a lot of ports, doing some manual configuration, etc. > > Now, I'm not quite sure how to convert it to use packages. > > The problem is that it was relatively easy to "cd /usr/ports/foo/bar > && make install clean". > > If I use the packages system, I seem to have to know what version
Nope, that is not needed. > I want to install. This seems like it'd be really unstable, since > the versions will change from release to release. > > So to convert the script to work with any release, I'd have to figure > out a way to get a listing and select the latest release from the > listing. > > Is there an easy way to do this? export PKG_PATH=http://path/to/mirror/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`arch -s/ pkg_add nmap squid openldap foobar ... -- Antoine
