Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Ports collection?

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:55:01 GMT

In article <bl8lv4$kof$05$1@news.t-online.com>,
Igor Buchmueller <inty@int80h.de> 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.

But while the first suggestion will get all the dist files, the
second one will not. There are some dist files which have
restricted distribution preventing the from being distributed on CD
and only available from the main distribution site.

And consdering there are 9212 entries in the ports tree [on this
machine anyway - and I have some exclued] and many of these
are different programs which do the same thing, I can't see that
any one user would ever need them all.

Bill 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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