Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:54:47 -0600 From: James <oscartheduck@gmail.com> To: anderson.gnu@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: re: update ports from a file Message-ID: <d59e90ab0709180654w69daf8c7r502ca5b625f4ee79@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Anderson, you can update your ports tree by gunzipping and untarring the ports.tar.gzfile -- I believe it extracts itself to the correct place. And deleting everything beforehand would be a smart move, yes. However, this might not be appropriate for you as you have no internet connection. Ports simply tells the computer where to find the appropriate source code, it doesn't *contain* the source code. So if you try make install clean for anything, it's not going to *find* the source code unless you first download the tarball and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles. You may be better off seeing if there're any iso images of prebuilt packages lying around that you can tell pkg_add to install from. Or trying to fix your network card. James
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