Re: no /usr/ports directory

From: Aryan Ameri (public_at_aryanameri.com)
Date: 02/05/05

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    To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:46:35 +0200

    On Saturday 05 February 2005 13:32, Nikolas Britton wrote:
    > Imobach González Sosa wrote:
    > >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).
    >
    > Use option 2 as a method of last resort for "creating" the ports
    > system on your computer. It's taxing on the servers and is generally
    > the slowest way you can create the ports system, my uncompressed
    > ports tree is 400MB (excluding ./distfiles). Also there is another
    > method listed in Michael Lucas's Absolute BSD book, a good book for a
    > newbie to pickup, also pickup The Complete FreeBSD (4th Ed.) by Greg
    > 'groggy' Lehey and then when your an expert newbie (?, lol) pickup a
    > copy of Unix Power Tools (3rd Ed.) published by O'Reilly.
    >

    Yes, Thanks for the advise. I am not nearly a Unix newbie, I have been
    using Linux and Solaris and OS X for a couple of years now. I am
    reading the handbook now and have also ordered The Complete FreeBSD
    (4th edition). Will certainly look into the other books that you
    mentioned.

    Cheers
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