From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 3:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D066637B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13okEI-00057S-00; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:25:50 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:25:50 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Victor M Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: packages Message-ID: <20001026122550.E19392@draenor.org> References: <20001026121233.C19392@draenor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from vit@gus.orgus.ru on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:21:18PM +0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, You are talking about gigabytes worth of data. It's simply not logical to want to copy all of this data to your local machine when you can simply use the ports tree to get just what you need. :) Cheers, Marc On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:21:18PM +0600, Victor M wrote: > Thank You for reply. > > I don't want to install those packages. I just want them to be downloaded > into my machine to keep them for further usage. But don't now how. > I tried wget with the path > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/path_to_the_release/packages/* > but it downloaded only INDEX and not actual packages. > > Victor. > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Marc Silver wrote: > > > Hey there, > > > > Check out http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html for some > > information on how to use the ports tree, or you can use > > /stand/sysinstall to install packages. Also take a look at the man page > > for pkg_add. :) > > > > Good luck, > > Marc > > > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:56PM +0600, Victor M wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I downloaded FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE from primary site. > > > Everyting was fetched OK except packages. > > > Can anybody tell me how to download packages. > > > > > > Victor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message