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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
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Subject: Re: ports database
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:45 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > 
> > At least you need one machine with Internet connection to get
> > the ports update, e. g. using "portsnap fetch extract" or
> > "make update" (using csup). Once done, tar cf ports.tar /usr/ports
> > and transfer the file to the server without Internet connection;
> > finally extract it there.
> 
> Is that supposed to say this?
> 
>     tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port

It should be, better suited:

	# cd /usr
	# tar cf ports.tar ports

So one could do "tar xf ports.tar" in the target machine's /usr
directory which would create /usr/ports in the version obtained;
a previously existing ports/ subtree could be removed prior to
extraction.

I think the - infront of the options string isn't neccessary for
tar, but it's optional in this case.




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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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