a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

[Abu Khaled]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:27:22 +0000, well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade. 
> 
> I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and "make
> install". 
> 
> That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the "make
> install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current directory. Is it
> correct? 
> 
> Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current by change
> one configuration file? If I want to override the default fetching site of
> "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I do? 

you need to set PACKAGESITE environment variable

example for i386 and 5.X STABLE
# setenv PACKAGESITE
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ALL

If it fails I use this one
# setenv PACKAGESITE
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest

> 
> >From: Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> 
> >Reply-To: racerx at makeworld.com 
> >To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu at gmail.com> 
> >CC: well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> >Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean" 
> >Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0600 
> > 
> >Abu Khaled wrote: 
> >>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +0000, well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com> 
> >>wrote: 
> >> 
> >>>       I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only 
> >>>install 
> >>>   the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I use 
> >>>cvsup 
> >>>   to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing 
> >>>these, I 
> >>>   want to install the kde3 and gnome2. But I found when I use the 
> >>>   pkg_add command, freebsd will go to the directory under 
> >>>"5.3-release", 
> >>>   it is older than the installation using "make install clean" 
> >>>command. 
> >>>   For example, when I use pkg_add xorg, it will install 6.7 
> >>>version. 
> >>>   When I use "make install clean", it will install 6.8.2 version. 
> >>>How 
> >>>   can I make them to install same versions?  Another question is, 
> >>>when I 
> >>>   install the xorg-clients, it give me a error message that 
> >>>"libc.so.6" 
> >>>   not found, and many reference to *GL.so not found, how can I 
> >>>fix it? I 
> >>>   had get the latest X11R7-src{1,2,3}.tar.bz2. 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>My guess would be that you did not build/install world/kernel. So 
> >>the 
> >>package system still defaults to your 5.3 release branch. The 
> >>sources/ports you updated must be for the development brach 
> >>FreeBSD-5.X, also known as FreeBSD 5-STABLE "RELENG 5" 
> >> 
> >>Check your CVSUP configuration (supfile). 
> >>if default tag=RELENG_5 then you are tracking 5.4 STABLE and you 
> >>need 
> >>to buildworld/kernel and install (check the handbook). 
> >> 
> >>If you don't whant to buildworld/kernel then change "tag=RELENG_5" 
> >>to 
> >>"tag=RELENG_5_3", cvsup again and your sources/ports well be the 
> >>same 
> >>as PACKAGES (the older ones) 
> >> 
> > 
> >This is flat out wrong. The cvsup of the src tree and the ports tree 
> >are seperate. You would use 2 seperate cvs files. 
> > 
> >Now, you "could" combine them I suppose (I dont know out right - I 
> >have not done this. If you cvsup the ports tree (and it sounds like 
> >you may have, by doing so, you have pulled in a "newer" tree of the 
> >ports. Thus, a make install would get you the newest installs 
> >(pending on when you cvsuped the ports tree) of those programs. 
> > 
> >Using pkg_add is simply going out to the FBSD site and installing 
> >the binary (pre compiled) versions that were released when the OS 
> >was released. 
> > 
> >The proper tag for getting the latest ports tree under 5.3-RELEASE 
> >would be this in the ports-supfile: 
> > 
> >*default release=cvs tag=. 
> > 
> >Remeber, as long as you keep your ports tree up to date, the 
> >packages will always be outdated. 
> > 
> >You can find all this out by simply reading the handbook online. 
> > 
> >Please try to know what your talking about before confusing a 
> >newbie. 
> > 
> >-- 
> >Best regards, 
> >Chris 
> > 
> >Virtue is its own punishment. 
> 
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Kind regards
Abu Khaled