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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:49:01 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles
Message-ID:  <200503252049.02498.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de>
References:  <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de>

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On Friday 25 March 2005 14:25, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello.
> I run into the follwoing problem.
> Using an internet connected at my lab makes me happy installing each
> package I need from source.
> At home I have only a very slow moem connection, but I need also the
> same packages (not precompiled,
> the sources) there.
>
> One idea was to "fetch" every source tarball of every installed
> port-package as reported in /var/db/pkg,
> burn /usr/ports/distfiles in conjunction with a up to date
> /usr/Ports-tree on one or two DVDs and
> the copy this at home on the disk (capacity is not an issue).
>
> Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to gather
> all tarballs from each installed
> port and its friends it depends on.
> Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help.

what about

portupgrade -Fa



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