Users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sat Feb 23 22:00:03 PST 2013


I wrote an article about using dports a little while ago that may be
helpful:

http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/01/12/11008.html



On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:13 PM, rll at insightbb.com <rll at insightbb.com>wrote:

>
>  Ok,
>
> When I go to /usr there is no dports folder.
> It does not come with dragonfly.
> So where is it?
> Do I need to download it?
> I now get that we are replacing pkg with one that comes with freebsd.,
> A few basic steps is what I am looking for.
> I cannot make dports-create. There is no such option in the dragonfly
> Makefile.
> Thanks
>
>
>
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>    1. Re: Reply on advice for pkg, kde, nvidia, and vmware (John Marino)
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> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:14:16 +0100
> From: John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st>
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> Subject: Re: Reply on advice for pkg, kde, nvidia, and vmware
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> On 2/22/2013 22:52, rll at insightbb.com wrote:
> > How do I get "pkg" installed? Sorry to be dense on this but its not in
> > pkgsrc.
>
> When you try to build any port from source, pkg is built first.  You can
> also built pkg by "cd /usr/dports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install".
> At that point you could install binaries if you had a repository.
>
> > Do I need to do a rm -rf pkgsrc and get rid of pkgsrc?
>
> /usr/pkgsrc can stay.
> I'd would recommend "mv /usr/pkg /usr/pkg.moved" so the conflict
> resolution isn't so drastic.
>
> > Isn't kde4 a phone app interface? If I wanted Window 8 I'd go get a
> > psychiatric evaluation first or just go blow my brains out.
>
> xfce 4.10 might be for you then for the basic desktop.
>
> > Too bad about nvidia. I thought dragonfly bragged about have good
> > drivers for nvidia.
>
> I'm not aware of that bragging.
> John
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