[indiana-discuss] Emacs on Indiana

[Bart Smaalders]

Steven M. Christensen wrote:
> Praveen -
> 
> The Companion CD version of emacs is available to be installed by 
> Indiana pkg commands.   The commands you might use are
> 
> pkg image-create -F -a sunfreeware.com=http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 /
> 
> export PKG_IMAGE=/
> 
> pkg install IPSFWemacs
> 
> This will install emacs and its dependencies into the standard 
> /opt/sfw/bin Companion CD location.
> 
> The pkg.sunfreeware.com server is running Indiana Preview 2.  I just
> did the above install on another Indiana Preview 2 machine and it 
> produced a working /opt/sfw/bin/emacs program.
> 
> Steve Christensen



You will find that appending the following to your /var/pkg/cfg_cache
file will allow you to use both repositories transparently:


[authority_sunfreeware.com]
origin = http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000
prefix = sunfreeware.com
mirrors = None

- Bart

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