From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 9 17:00:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12683 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [207.217.224.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12674 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [207.217.224.195]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA26091; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:00:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <003501bddc4d$e3209dc0$c3e0d9cf@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "jher" , Subject: Re: suggestion Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:59:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: jher > I would like to suggest a number of different ports kits. >I work for an ISP and I find myself grabbing the entire ports kit, installing >it (which takes forever) and then only using about 20% of the kit, if that. >What I would like to suggest is twofold: > >first: how about making tar files of each category? I.E. www.tar, net.tar, >etc.. That way I can just update an entire section of my ports collection at >once. > Try: ftp ftp.freebsd.org cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports get www.tar The server will then tar the www directory and send it to you as a tar file. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message