| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 8 Jun 2002 05:36:40 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:47:40PM -0400, Samantha wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to install packages without downloading > the entire pkgsrc Keep in mind that "the entire pkgsrc" is just a bunch of Makefiles (and a few short text files). The full source for a given package is only downloaded (into pkgsrc/distfiles) when you install the package. The pkgsrc tarball probably takes longer to untar that it does to download on anything resembling broadband or above (and a 56k modem may resemble it sufficiently, depending on your hard drive speed). That said, certainly! Use binary packages! Get the package you want from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<version>/<arch>, where <version> is something like 1.5.2 and <arch> is (probably) i386. (Note that binary package support for archs other than i386 is a little bit spotty, but an packages for a NetBSD version *older* than the kernel you're running will always work, provided you haven't actively removed COMPAT_ lines from your kernel config and rebuilt it.) Even if you're running a -current system, you can use 1.5.x (or older, really) packages (though if you're tracking -current, your probably the kind of person who wants to build your own packages too.) Once you've got the package files, use pkg_add(1) to install the. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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