Here's the finished script from which I just bootstrapped -current. Gets
the job done.
Thanks for the help.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Usage: ftp -o - -V http://dl.ramov.com/bootstrap.pl | perl -
use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
die "This script must be run as root.\n" unless $> eq 0;
my $arch = q
* Shlomi Fish [2011-10-29T19:03+0200]:
> Since you're not interested in the output of the pkg_add command, you should
> do:
>
> system("pkg_add", $_);
Actually, I am. I want to be able to interface with the program. E.g. if
there are multiple flavors for some package, `pkg_add` might prompt me
w
Nothing to get excited about as this is just a beginning of my first
Perl script. Intention is to pipe it from some web accessible location
to perl upon first boot.
I have difficulties with 'perlism' as I tend to only write small trivial
shell scripts.
More specifically, the following line:
