install or download port collection?

George Rosamond george at ceetonetechnology.com
Fri May 2 15:21:09 UTC 2014


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



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