On Friday 15 July 2005 06:54, Ean Kingston wrote: > On July 14, 2005 04:03 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > 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? > > My Mac (OSX 10.2) doesn't have anything remotely resembling a port > infrastructure installed as part of the OS. All the OSS that I've installed > was done through what I will call binary 'bundles' mostly from .dmg files. > They each provided their own installer (usually using the applescript > langauge).
Too bad for Apple, the ports system is what makes FreeBSD shine, no point in trying to get portmanager running in OS X in any case. -Mike > > For those who might care, a .dmg file is a mac disk image and seams to be > the mac equivolent of tar. > > Sometimes the installer is a text file that says move the files to your > applications directory. > > > For example can you do things like: > > make > > make install > > make package > > make deinstall > > ??? > > You would need to install a compiler. > > > 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. > > /var isn't really used by the MAC except for /var/log and /var/run. > > > 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]"
