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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:46:02 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: ozdemir dogan <ozdemirdgn@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: checking  ports
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:23:06AM -0700, ozdemir dogan wrote:
 
> Is there a command to check the port and its dependicies to learn
> all the needed files are in the distfile directory.

It's not that easy to do without actually downloading the
missing distfiles:

   portupgrade -RNF portname 

To download all the distfiles you need to update your system in one go
you can say:

   portupgrade -RNFa

This isn't completely accurate, but it does a reasonably good job. 

	Matthew

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