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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 06 14:05:25 PDT
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Message-ID:  <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com>
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> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree    
> in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.
 
with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an
up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a
not-updated base install from CD.  OP might be better off
loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the
rest of the system.



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