portsnap fetch Do I have to download all ports?

[Caesar]

I am new to FreeBSD and would like to install MySQL into the jail but I was wondering do I really have to get all of the ports? Is there a way to just get the one port that I need instead of using portsnap fetch extract?

 

[James]

If you go the ports route, yes, you have to download the whole ports tree. If you go the packages route, you just install the package(s) you want.

 

[Caesar]

Thanks I didn't realize that pkg_add works in the jail I thought ports was the only option.

 

[William Grzybowski]

pkg_add works but _shouldnt_ be used. Ports is the recommended way.

 

[fracai]

Can you elaborate on why pkg_add shouldn't be used? It's still listed as an option ("quickest and easiest" seems to imply the preferred method) in the manual.

 

[William Grzybowski]

The plugins jail is based on freebsd releng/8.0, the ports used to built are from a different date and the pkg_add fetches the packages from 8.3-release repository (kernel version). pkg_add binary system is not advanced enough to work with this so you end up installing binaries that may not be compatible with other packages.

 

[fracai]

Ah, the manual should probably be updated to at least provide that warning at the top of the pkg_add section of the Plugin page. http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Plugins#Installing_FreeBSD_Packages_with_pkg_add

 

[William Grzybowski]

Well, it is a wiki, anyone can do this ;)

 

[cyberjock]

You are correct William, but I'm not sure where you even go to ask for permissions. I know I don't have permissions to the wiki. ProtoSD does, but he said he had to jump through a couple of hoops to get the appropriate permissions.

 

[William Grzybowski]

You edit some page and it goes for review. AFAIK it is simple as that.