On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:37, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the release notes or > code so I could look up the dependencies for the portsmanager package > and possibly compile it on Mac OS X Tiger.
Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is. I understand Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's port infrastructure? For example can you do things like: make make install make package make deinstall ??? If the above work diferently or /var/db/pkg/* is different then portmanager won't work. Would be interesting to know the similarities/differences between FreeBSD and Mac OS X ports infrastructure. As far as portmanager's dependices, to run it requires libc and to compile just needs standard autotools if I recall correctly. > My FreeBSD machine is currently at home (sadly without an internet > connection to the outside world :(), and I would like to keep it up to > date by periodically fetching the ports 'source files'/packages and port > snapshots. So I thought I could accomplish this via building the > portsmanager package and running it off of my laptop at school since > it's the only way I can accomplish my task at hand. > However, with that in mind, I was wondering if there was a better > way to fetch ports/packages without having to manhandle too many > programs/scripts, or if anyone has discovered a better solution to this > type of 'issue'. > Thanks and your responses are greatly appreciated as solving this > 'problem' will help save me a great deal of time :)! > -Garrett To use portmanager this way you'll need a way to keep your ports tree current and a way to get the current distfiles. If you can do these two things somehow then just drop the current distfiles into /usr/ports/distfiles and update your ports tree and portmanager should run OK. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
