Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:08:43 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: "Preston Crawford" <me@prestoncrawford.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system? Message-ID: <200311122208.43609.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <d7b4a806cd394a159eb830028c7d2bf1.me@prestoncrawford.com> References: <d7b4a806cd394a159eb830028c7d2bf1.me@prestoncrawford.com>
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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:48, Preston Crawford wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system > that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the > stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via > ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible > to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you > don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this is, though. By > that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in > this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd > like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. > However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will > be looking for these files. Anyone know? Look into the makefile for the port. There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Daniela
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