Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:42:59 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1047847380.948667@mired.org> To: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports witout internet Message-ID: <15982.19027.700753.677958@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F175kieqXItMcx0001db9c@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F175kieqXItMcx0001db9c@hotmail.com>
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In <BAY2-F175kieqXItMcx0001db9c@hotmail.com>, Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com> typed: > >I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I > >have never experienced installing applications offline. > >My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port > >collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? > >If yes, what are the requirements? > Once you disconnect from the network, you have to do all of the > dependency checking, downloading, transferring, building, etc > manually. It won't be fun. No, all you have to do is download the files manually. Once they in /usr/ports/distfiles, you can use the standard ports makefiles to build and install things. The real catch is that you have to fetch all the dependency distfiles for the port as well as it's distfile. If you have a part-time connection, you can do "make fetch-recursive" while you're online, and the ports system will fetch all the dependencies for you. Second best is to do "make fetchrecursive with DISTDIR pointing at an empty directory which you're going to populate and transfer to your system. Worst is to do "make all-depends-list" to get the complete dependency list, then go to each port listed and see what it fetches, then fetch and transfer them independently. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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