5. Stage Two: Ports Installation
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## 5. Stage Two: Ports Installation

### Note:

It is also possible to install the (precompiled) packages at this stage, instead of compiling ports. In this case, `stage_2.sh` would be nothing more than a list of `pkg_add` commands. I trust you know how to write such a script. Here we concentrate on the more flexible and traditional way of using the ports.

The following `stage_2.sh` script is how I install my favorite ports. It can be run any number of times and will skip all ports that are already installed. It supports the dryrun option (`-n`) to just show what would be done. You run it like `stage_1.sh` with exactly one argument to denote a config file, e.g.

`#` `./stage_2.sh `default``

which will read the list of ports from `stage_2.conf.default`.

The list of ports consists of lines with two or more space separated words: the category and the port, optionally followed by an installation command that will compile and install the port (default: `make install BATCH=yes < /dev/null`). Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. Most of the time it suffices to only name category and port. A few ports however can be fine tuned by specifying `make` variables, e.g.:

www mozilla make WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes install

In fact you can specify arbitrary shell commands, so you are not restricted to simple `make` invocations:

java jdk16 echo true > files/license.sh; make install BATCH=yes < /dev/null print acroread8 yes accept | make install PAGER=ls x11-fonts gnu-unifont make install && mkfontdir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local news inn-stable CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-uucp-rnews --enable-setgid-inews" make install

The first two lines are examples how you can handle ports asking you to accept a licence. Note how the line for `news/inn-stable` is an example for a one-shot shell variable assignment to `CONFIGURE_ARGS`. The port `Makefile` will use this as an initial value and augment some other essential args. The difference to specifying a make variable on the command line with

news inn-stable make CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-uucp-rnews --enable-setgid-inews" install

is that the latter will override instead of augment. It depends on the particular port which method you want.

Be careful that your ports do not use an interactive install, i.e. they should not try to read from stdin other than what you explicitly give them on stdin. If they do, they will read the next line(s) from your list of ports in the here-document and get confused. If `stage_2.sh` mysteriously skips a port or stops processing, this is likely the reason.

Below is `stage_2.conf.default`. A log file named `LOGDIR/category+port` is created for each port it actually installs.

# vim: syntax=sh # $Id: stage_2.conf.default,v 1.4 2008-12-03 21:59:51 schweikh Exp $ # $FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/stage_2.conf.default 38826 2012-05-17 19:12:14Z hrs $ ports-mgmt portaudit devel ccache shells zsh devel gettext archivers unzip archivers zip security sudo x11 xorg x11-servers xorg-server x11-fonts xorg-fonts-100dpi x11-fonts xorg-fonts-75dpi x11-fonts xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps x11-fonts xorg-fonts-truetype x11-fonts xorg-fonts-type1 x11-fonts gnu-unifont make install && mkfontdir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local x11-fonts urwfonts x11-fonts webfonts x11-toolkits open-motif x11-wm ctwm x11 wdm security openssh-askpass astro xplanet astro xephem editors vim print ghostscript8 print psutils-a4 print a2ps-a4 print gv print transfig print teTeX print cups-base emulators linux_base-fc6 print acroread8 yes accept | make install PAGER=ls java jdk16 echo true > files/license.sh; make install BATCH=yes < /dev/null www apache22 www amaya www firefox3 www checkbot www p5-HTML-Parser www validator www mplayer-plugin math p5-Math-Combinatorics math p5-Bit-Vector graphics evince graphics xfig graphics xv graphics gphoto2 multimedia xawtv lang expect lang gawk lang python news tin net freebsd-uucp net cvsup-without-gui net rsync ftp wget textproc ispell german ispell-neu german ispell-alt textproc docproj sysutils samefile sysutils smartmontools sysutils pstree sysutils cdrtools sysutils dvd+rw-tools sysutils grub sysutils lsof devel subversion-freebsd devel bcc devel ddd devel gindent devel ctags devel ElectricFence devel strace devel perltidy mail procmail mail metamail mail mutt-devel ports-mgmt portupgrade news inn CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-uucp-rnews --enable-setgid-inews" make BATCH=yes install < /dev/null misc figlet-fonts security gpa mail spamoracle textproc rman multimedia mplayer multimedia mplayer-fonts multimedia acidrip multimedia ogle multimedia ogle-gui audio pacpl audio p5-CDDB_get audio cowbell shells bash editors openoffice.org-3-RC java eclipse java netbeans

Download `stage_2.conf.default`.

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