building select ports for packaging on install media

Kurt Lidl lidl at pix.net
Tue Feb 12 17:16:09 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > cdrom.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is augement that CD-ROM image with several
> > binary packages, so I can just install them via 'sysinstall',
> > rather than having to maintain a /usr/ports tree on every host
> > and compile the same software again and again...
> 
> why not just use pkg_add?

Because there do not seem to be any packages available for
9.1-sparc64:

root at host-75: uname -a
FreeBSD host.pix.net 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Feb  5 00:35:59 EST 2013     lidl at host.pix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/V120  sparc64
root at host-76: pkg install nettop
Updating repository catalogue
pkg: http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:9:sparc64:64/latest/repo.txz: Not Found

-Kurt


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