Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Ports collection?

From: Yevgen Muntyan (muntyan_at_tamu.edu)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 03:15:17 -0500

If you have sources, you just need to put them in /usr/ports/distfiles
(or in /usr/ports/distfiles/<some special folder> for some ports), and
cd /usr/ports/<category>/<needed ports> && make install

Igor Buchmueller wrote:
> Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>
>>I've recently installed FreeBSD on a laptop and I'm planning on taking as
>>my only machine on a long trip and won't have access to a network where I
>>can install ports as I normally do. Is there a way to have all the source
>>code for the ports on a CD and install from a CD? I couldn't find info on
>>this particular method (only installing the ports "info" from the CD, but
>>not to not go over the net to get the source for the port itself.
>>
>
>
> You can fetch all distfiles in the ports tree.
> cd /usr/ports && make fetch. ~15GB(?)
>
> I think this is a bad idea.
>
> You can buy a cd set at: http://www.freebsdmall.com,
> put in the cdrom, and the ports will try to fetch the distfile from the
> cdrom.
>
> Read chapter "4.5.2.1 Installing Ports from a CD-ROM"
> in the handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>
>
>
>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff.
>>
>>---
>>Jeff D. Hamann
>>Hamann, Donald and Associates, Inc.
>>PO Box 1421
>>Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421
>>(office) 541-754-1428
>>(cell) 541-740-5988
>>jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com
>>www.hamanndonald.com
>
>
> regards,
> Igor Buchmueller
>

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