installing software?

Aaron Malone aaron at munge.net
Fri Mar 19 07:14:29 PST 2004


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:52:45 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> I finally got to installing DragonFly, and it went smoothly, but I'm a
> little puzzled on how to proceed with installing ports? Should I cvsup
> the FreeBSD's ports and then DragonFly's dports? Can someone give me
> more details on this issue?

You should get both; the port trees go in /usr/ports and /usr/dfports,
respectively.  The port overrides (dfports) exist because not all of the
FreeBSD versions of the ports build on DFly anymore.  If a port override
exists, the port system should build it instead of the original fbsd
port.

If you want smooth port usage, I'd recommend against setting CCVER=gcc3
in /etc/make.conf, by the way.  We don't define __FreeBSD__ in that
compiler, and many of the ports don't seem to like that.

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Aaron Malone
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