Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:17:08 +0000 From: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk> To: wayne@moneyworld.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Message-ID: <20000207101708.E96749@extremis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002011811030.5700-100000@wayne.office.moneyworld.co.uk>; from wayne@moneyworld.co.uk on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 06:12:02PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002011811030.5700-100000@wayne.office.moneyworld.co.uk>
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On 01/02 18:12, wayne@moneyworld.co.uk wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh from the ports directory on a machine... Does > this require the machine to be connected to the internet? Nope. You can mount the CDROM which has the ports distfiles on it on /cdrom -- the port installation mechanism will look in there. > Is there any way to dump the source tarball on the local machine and do > it this way? Yes. Look in the Makefile in the directory of the port you wish to install and you will see URLs for the tarball required. Fetch those tarballs -- you may have you chase port dependencies and put them into /usr/ports/distfiles. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] Powered by SMP FreeBSD "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar." -- D.E. Knuth http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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