Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

[Chris Rees]

On 29 Dec 2011 21:36, "Bruce Cran" <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 29/12/2011 21:30, Chris Rees wrote:
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>> Nah, pkg_add -r works and grabs anything you need. Try it with something
monstrous (like gcc...)
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> But then you have to know the exact name of the package, which isn't
always obvious.

If an educated guess doesn't work...

make -C /usr/ports/category/name -V PKGNAME will get you the package name.

Chris