Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:00:19 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: jln@defiant.vhm.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port tree Message-ID: <199606121500.PAA06083@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606112259.RAA00681@defiant.vhm.com> (message from Joe Nieten on Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:59:49 -0500)
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>>>>> Joe Nieten <jln@defiant.vhm.com> writes: > > Is there a simple way to rebuild the port source tree on my disk, so > that I can just do a make on the pariticular port I want and take > advantage of the auto-fetch features? Yep. ftp.freebsd.org supports on-the-fly tar-and-zipping, so just go to the ports directory there and do > get archivers.tar.gz > get audio.tar.gz ... (Don't get distfiles.tar.gz or you'll have a very long wait!) Then go to your own ports directory and do # tar xzvf /where/you/down/loaded/it/archivers.tar.gz ... and there you have it! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG
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