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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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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
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jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG