From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 18:25:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9249616A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26D143D2F for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040424012524.QILV18566.out011.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:25:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4089C1FB.8010402@mac.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:25:15 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Killermink !" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:25:24 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:25:25 -0000 Killermink ! wrote: > I see what your saying and i suppose I have two points: > > 1) Can you install a port without installing the ports tree? Yes, or sort of. You need things like the ports Makefiles in /usr/ports/Mk, but if you copy, say, archivers/gtar to /tmp/gtar and then deleted /usr/ports/archivers and the other categories, you could still build the gtar port by itself. Modulo dependencies. Frankly, if 300MB of disk space is an issue, using binary packages instead or else build your ports on another machine and create your own packages is probably the way to go. "make package-recursive"... > 2) If you must install the ports tree, what is the best way to keep it > up to date? cvsup. > I am still new at this, and can't seem to find packages for all the > ports in the tree... Where did you look, and what is missing? -- -Chuck