install or download port collection?

[Paul Darius]

I just download the ports.tar.gz from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
can it be used ? no arch dependency on the source ?

TIA

P

On 5/2/14, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:59 -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
>> Paul Darius:
>> > hi there,
>> >
>> > i just new to fbsd and rpi.
>> >
>> > the fbsd image downloaded from
>> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20140427-r265018.img.bz2
>> > and the image successfully dd into sdcard 32GB.
>> >
>> > surprise that I can not find sysinstall, but at the end I find
>> > bsdinstall
>> > question is, how to install or download the port collections ?
>> > i try using ftp and http direct but no luck
>>
>>
>> Paul:
>>
>> The likely best route to install the ports tree is to use portsnap(8).
>>
>> From there, you can use whatever tools you prefer... subversion, svnup,
>> etc to update the source, portmaster or whatever to update the ports.
>>
>> George
>>
>
> Portsnap is a painful many-hour process on an RPi.  I remember trying it
> last year and it ran for hours and always crashed or panicked before
> completion.  Hopefully we've got the crash/panic stuff worked out these
> days, but the time is still going to be bad.
>
> I prefer to keep a master ports tree on an nfs server and just mount it
> on arm boards as needed, and build ports with WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp.  If
> you're not set up for NFS (and don't want to be) another viable option
> might be to do the portsnap process on a faster machine with the results
> placed onto a usb drive that you can attach to the rpi.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
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