Hi Brian, All

Well I downloaded a perl pkg from the netbsd/3/packages ftp site as
the 5.8.8 perl tarball I downloaded wouldn't compile. However I got
the samba-latest, apache 2.2 and mysql 5.0.26 to compile just fine
(mysql gave me a couple of warnings).

I stuck all my tarballs in /temp (which I created) and then did
./configure, make, make install from there.

I just configured them all with --PREFIX=/usr/local/samba

etc, and the same for apache and mysql.

I'm a little peeved that I didn't ask about pkgsrc before I did all
this. Would I be right in assuming that if pkgsrc puts the new
installs in the same place I don't have too much to worry about?

As for Andreas' site being down, thats exactly why I didn't follow
his guide, I had it bookmarked but I couldn't find it!

Thanks
Glyn

--- Brian McEwen <bmcewen@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Glyn Astill wrote:
> 
> > Okay thanks guys,
> >
> > I've already installed samba, apache and mysql from source and
> have
> > them set up. Could one of you two advise on the best way for me
> to
> > convert over to using pkgsrc?
> >
> > Do I have to remove what I've installed already? And if so how do
> I
> > go about this?
> 
> Oh wow, I missed that, the teraqube page doesn't give pkgsrc
> details  
> like Andreas' page does.
> 
> His instructions for perl say to use the pkgsrc, but samba just
> gives  
> a tarball-- did you get the .tar from the samba.org site?
> 
> Hopefully you actually used pkgsrc to get samba as it is now in the
>  
> pkrsrc tree, just as you did for perl.
> 
> If not:
> You can/should build/install from source and be using pkgsrc.  The 
> 
> fact is the binary packages for the Qube often are way behind or  
> nonexistent; I've always just built from source myself.   Using the
>  
> pkgsrc tree to get your source files helps markedly in keeping
> track  
> of important things.
> 
> If you don't have pkgsrc, or want to keep it current, Andreas has a
>  
> good guide up:
> http://www.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/
> Follow his directions to first obtain, then update the pkgsrc tree.
>   
> You can use his 1.6.1 instructions, you get -current if you don't  
> specify a specific version, and -current is what you want.
> 
>   I would be surprised that sources you just grab from the
> samba.org  
> site would build on NetBSD/MIPS without some tailoring, but if they
>  
> did, they did :)
> 
> As far as deleting what you put in-  It depends a little on what
> you  
> did and where you got the sources from.  As far as I know the ftp  
> site has been down for a bit, so perhaps you didn't use the link he
>  
> gave for the 1.6.1 version, but built from /usr/pksrc/net/samba or 
> 
> got a version from a 3.x directory if the ftp was up?
> 
> As far as more current walkthru's go, check out Andrea' site that
> is  
> linked above, there are how-to's for 1.6.1, 3.0, and 3.99 that you 
> 
> can glean ideas from.
> 
> -B
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



Glyn Astill



	
	
		
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