Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

[Bill Moran]

Paul Richards <paul.richards at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I should try just untarring the relevant bit of the ports tree, and
> just copy in extra bits whenever I find it failing.. ?  Is that a
> reasonable way to approach this?

It's a PITA, and it can be time-consuming, but it's worked for me.

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:00:46 -0500, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> > Paul Richards <paul.richards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I
> > > have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not
> > > packages.  The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'.
> > >
> > > Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always
> > > available when the ports are?  According to freshports.org I should be
> > > able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl.
> > 
> > Pretty much.  There's no guarantee that all ports are available as
> > packages.
> > 
> > > Unfortunately I am only allowed (by the girlfriend) to play with
> > > FreeBSD on an old 1 gig disk and so I don't have the space to install
> > > ports.  Are there any other sources of precompiled packages which I
> > > could use?  Is there a way to install just the portion of the ports
> > > tree which I need?
> > 
> > You can work with an incomplete ports tree sometimes.  The ports tree
> > is heavily dependent on the fact that make can jump to different
> > directories to install dependencies and such ... that being said,
> > I have been able to use partial ports trees in the past.  It's a
> > bit of a gamble.
> > 
> > --
> > Bill Moran
> > Potential Technologies
> > http://www.potentialtech.com
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Richards
> http://www.pauldoo.net


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