From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 16 14:30:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00105 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29999 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-238.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.238]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA20330 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:30:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA10789 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:30:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901162230.QAA10789@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: prefetch all of a ports distfiles? From: David Kelly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:30:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lets say I'd like to install /usr/ports/x11/gnome on my dialup FreeBSD system. For smaller ports such as fetchmail one can simply, "make fetch" while online, then build later offline. But for gnome, fetch does nothing. "make install" will download the first thing, build it, move on to the next, download & build, and the next, until done. The other day I dropped my line and went to bed to find out the next morning Gnome stopped because something was missing. Anyhow, it just now failed to build for other reasons. Guess the port and 3.0 are not together yet. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message