Hello,
I've just installed 9.0-RELEASE (amd64) in a KVM/Qemo VM on debian linux, which
is extremely painful because of the abysmal I/O performance, and would like to
build the virtio-kmod. After unpacking src.txz (xz -c
/cd/usr/freebsd-dist/src.txz | tar xf -) I did the following:
# cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtio-kmo
# make clean install
at this point I saw port names such as perl, tcl, neon, sqlite, etc fly past.
Apparently the ports system satisfies dependencies from the ports tree by
default.
Since I have not updated anything, it seems reasonable, and much less painful to
satisfy the dependencies using the packages on the installation DVD, which is
mounted on /cd.
I tried setting PKG_PATH to "/cd/packages" and to "/cd/packages/All", but when I
simply try to test using, for example, "pkg_add perl" pkg_add simply says "can't
stat package file".
I'm guessing it would be pointless to try to use a (remote) URL in PACKAGEROOT,
as the "-r" flag *must* be give in order for pkg_add to honor the setting, and
god knows how the ports system calls pkg_add, if at all.
I had a long look in the docs, but this stuff doesn't *seem* to be documented :(
Is it possible to get the ports system to satisfy dependencies using the
packages from the installation DVD? If so, how?????
cheers,
Robert Urban
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