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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:55:11 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: update ports from a file
Message-ID:  <20070918165511.0dc99d86@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <d245113f0709171801h59cbdbd1v3d213418398dd577@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d245113f0709171801h59cbdbd1v3d213418398dd577@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:01:37 +1000
"Mr Anderson" <anderson.gnu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD in the Univ recently and quite interesting.
> I decided to installed FreeBSD 6.2 in my laptop (I dont have internet
> connection) and now I want to install apache and other software. So, I
> downloaded
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and copy
> to my laptop to update ports. How do I update ports from the
> file? Right now, I have an old version of Ports, portsnap fetch does
> not work because I do not have internet
> connection, and FreeBSD does not recognize my netowrk card reader, so
> I want to do it by hand , step by step.
> 
> Any tip how to do update? Should I just unzip the file
> in /usr/ports , but previosly delete everything???


If you don't have a network connection, I would suggest you use the 
packages on the install disk.



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