On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700, "Rob Lytle" <jan6146_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 2. Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a > dependency is already present. Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to > install gigantic packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE > metapackage, and my notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or > thereabout. That is one hell of a long compile time. For this > request I will just have to wait for FreeBSD 10.0. Crashing is a bug. We should fix that. Having said this, I often use portupgrade for this sort of thing. After mounting the DVD, you can see what would be installed with # mount /cdrom # env PKG_PATH=/cdrom/packages/All portupgrade -n -N -PP postfix and then you can actually *run* the installation by removing the `-n' option from the portupgrade run.Received on Thu Jul 03 2008 - 05:03:02 UTC
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