Re: no /usr/ports directory

From: Imobach González Sosa (imobachgs_at_banot.net)
Date: 02/05/05

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    To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:25 +0000

    On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:38, Aryan Ameri wrote:
    > Hi there,
    >
    > New to FreeBSD and this is my first message to a BSD mailing list. Hope
    > to learn a lot from you guys.
    >
    > I am reading the Handbook and chapter 4 which deals with packages and
    > ports repeatedly refers to the /usr/ports directory. The problem is
    > that I don't have this directory on my system. I am using FreeBSD 5.3
    > on a x86 machine. A simple google and browing the archives of this list
    > didn't bear much fruit. Have I missed something during the
    > installation?

    Ok, it happens because you didn't tell sysinstall to install the ports
    collection. You could:

    1) go into sysinstall and choose "ports" from Configure->Distributions. If you
    got a FreeBSD CD, it install the ports from it. This step is optional, but
    could save you some time.

    2) cvsup -L2 -g -h A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
    This second step will upgraded your ports collection (or will create it if you
    didn't follow the step 1).

    Change A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU for just a mirror.

    Good luck! 

    -- 
Imobach González Sosa
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