On 8/7/2010 6:03 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
However, I'm on dialup. pkg_add doesn't seem to be able to resume since
I can't use the phone line (or the computer) long enough to install
packages all in one go.
Is there a solution to this?
There might be a more elegant solution but this is what I would say
offhand. All pkg_add is doing is downloading the package from the
freebsd ftp. It's just doing the behind the scenes stuff of picking
which package is right for your system. So you could just use an ftp
client with resume and go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
and find the packages you want and que them up in your ftp client. Then
just do pkg_add /path/to/package when you've finished downloading them.
If you don't use packages I think you can also setup resume if you're
doing the "make install" method. Find an ftp client you want to use and
change from using fetch to download source. This post describes setting
up an ftp client to download using multiple connections but you should
be able to adapt it for your needs.
http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/09/freebsd-download-ports-simultaneously.html
I understand that if I go with building from source (both for security
updates and for third-party apps) the there is a resume function with
that. True? I was hoping to avoid the build-time, and I think it takes
longer to download source than binary.
If you have an old FreeBSD ISO/CD laying around or someone you know has
one you could install whatever version of the source you have. The
handbook describes methods you can use to update your source where you
only need to download what's different (this also means you don't need
to download the source all at once).This should limit how much you have
to download if you have a fairly recent version of FreeBSD and it will
be pretty easy to then keep updated with minimal downloads in the future.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
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