Re: Does anybody use pkgsrc on Centos/RHEL/Fedora on a daily basis?

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 11/28/17 07:08, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I have just completed a fresh installtion of a minimal Centos 7
> system. Rather than completing the installation with native packages,
> I'd like to experiment and try to make a usable desktop system using
> pkgsrc.
>
> I'm not sure whether to start with the plain vanilla pkgsrc or the
> forked pkgsrc-joyent from joyent (Maybe Jonathan Perkin can jump in
> explain the difference, as I've been away from pkgsrc for some time).
>
> If anybody is running it from inside Centos/RHEL or Fedora, please
> share your tips.
>
> Thank you
We use it extensively for research computing on CentOS 6 & 7.

We use the Joyent packages for a few system tools and basic userland 
tools like editors, git, svn, etc.  I add scripts to /etc/profile.d to 
put /usr/pkg/*bin in everyone's PATH.

I generate separate packages from quarterly snapshots for scientific 
software.

Detailed into here:

http://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/

Most of our systems are headless servers, but I provide VM guests with 
Gnome installed via Yum, and most userland tools via pkgsrc. I have not 
tried running a desktop environment installed by pkgsrc, but it should 
be feasible with some tweaking of the init/systemd scripts.

My half-baked script for installing Gnome below.  See the link above for 
pkgsrc setup wizards.

#!/bin/sh -e

ask_reboot()
{
    printf "Reboot? [y]/n "
    read reboot
    if [ 0$reboot != 0n ]; then
        shutdown -r now
    fi
}

printf "Update network? y/[n] "
read resp
if [ 0$resp = 0y ]; then
    vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
    service network restart
    yum update -y
    ask_reboot
fi

yum install -y man subversion rsync

printf "Install desktop? y/[n] "
read resp
if [ 0$resp = 0y ]; then
    # CentOS 6
    # yum groupinstall -y Desktop basic-desktop" "X Window System" Fonts
    # yum groupinstall -y Desktop "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" 
Fonts
    # sed -i'' -e 's|id:3:initdefault|id:5:initdefault|g' /etc/inittab

    # CentOS 7
    # https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47088
    yum groupinstall "X Window System"
    yum install gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal 
nautilus-open-terminal \
        control-center liberation-mono-fonts
    unlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target
    ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target \
        /etc/systemd/system/default.target

    ask_reboot
fi

if [ ! -e /usr/pkgsrc-1 ]; then
    curl -O http://acadix.biz/auto-pkgsrc-setup
    sh ./auto-pkgsrc-setup
fi

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