Package Source
Using Joyent's binary repository
- Newly added packages
- Example install PEAR
Want to build a new package

Package Source

Whatever you do with the packaging system (add/move binary packages, build your own), you'll need root's privileges. There are two ways:

If you have a user with sudo privileges ('admin', and the default 'db915682' kind of user), use sudo:
```
sudo -s
[enter current user's password]
```
to change your shell to a privileged one; or
Change effective user to root:
```
su -
[enter root password]
```

Using Joyent's binary repository

To use the Joyent binary package repository then use
```
pkg_add http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q4/_name_of_package
```
Changing the name of the Quarter as time goes on.

Example install PEAR

This will add the core PEAR tools, and you can have it self-upgrade to the latest (if you want), and/or pull in the packages you need from PEAR. This is also using our binary package repository

pkg_add http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/php5-pear-1.5.4nb1.tgz

Want to build a new package

Setting up to be able to build

Be sure to use sudo or change to too (see above)

Run security audit first time:

/opt/local/sbin/download-vulnerability-list >/dev/null 2>&1

Create a Cron job for it:

0 3 * * * /opt/local/sbin/download-vulnerability-list >/dev/null 2>&1

Remove this line from /opt/local/etc/mk.conf:
```
DEPENDS_TARGET=         package
```

FB accelerators are deployed with 'stable' 2007Q3 pkgsrc branch. If you wish to switch to the bleeding edge then do this to update the tree

cd /opt/pkgsrc && cvs -q up -dP

. This is not recommended for the average user. Stick with the stable quarterly updates, unless you know what you're doing, or are looking for a particular package version.

The MySQLdb Python module is seriously outdated in PKGSRC, so we suggest you install the latest one by building it from the source tarball. This snippet is intended to be copied/pasted into your shell (make sure you 'sudo' first) and will download, patch (for Solaris) and install the latest module:

cd /tmp
curl -O http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
tar xzf MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd MySQL-python-1.2.2
curl -O http://wiki.joyent.com/_media/facebook:kb:mysqldb-rpath.tgz
mv facebook\:kb\:mysqldb-rpath.tgz MySqldb-RPATH.tgz
gtar xvzf MySqldb-RPATH.tgz
patch -p0 < MySQLdb-RPATH.patch
python setup.py build && python setup.py install
cd
rm -rf /tmp/MySQL-python-1.2.2.*

Joyent

Package Source

Using Joyent's binary repository

Newly added packages

Example install PEAR

Want to build a new package

Prefight

Setting up to be able to build

Next part, the gotchas

MySQLdb for python/django