From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 23:53:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4AE116A46E for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:53:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florenzi@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C73C13C4C4 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:53:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florenzi@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so431994uge for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:53:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FH1eNDbzl71zxipbqNPiLGq9dkXzOaEGoi/hqaB5t94xRSKDk7H1YbGZe20Jhozx9HCXCID9FM5lzZMCTS4uksBMUyKSl1knH162a3Tj7LoX+XJO1tPNPvuCID7LF8xgE6cNxFGiOj9YBG9PwfsIMiYbQXLriGBhBcAnCtck6tA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gO8SYzDN40ZKFsCTvWnHx57ceOyvWMveDUPOkKd6M1t0sHmwgG0cXDMfdghhcIIzFwp0+cQ6JyNKMYQIpoSRIqoo161W4nUC7u2PYtzCNdbu2WUxO0ClYLeY9p1kJtcxakBGZz7371JqEJ3lVguy0Bz9VIBMnV/UbrpQlqQ6luw= Received: by 10.78.168.1 with SMTP id q1mr4421058hue.1183593214936; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.45.17 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3a386af20707041653s5d331d3bh4ba0ec91e606df45@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:53:34 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <253689.59522.qm@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <253689.59522.qm@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: If cvsup's a no-go, will copying work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:53:39 -0000 On 7/5/07, Andrew Gould wrote: > I received permission to install a *nix at work. I installed FreeBSD 6.2; > but I am unable to cvsup successfully. I've tried the various modes. I've > even tried nesting it in a Python script that tries to get authorization > through a proxy -- it didn't help, but was worth a try. Have you tried portsnap? Since it runs over normal http you should have no issues. As for the source tree... > I really, really, really want to get past the xorg 7* issue before I have a > lot of applications installed. > > If a computer at home is up-to-date, can I: > > 1. Delete /usr/src/*, /usr/ports/* and /usr/doc/* from the work computer; > and Shouldn't really be nessacery, but why not. > 2. copy the /usr/src/*, /usr/ports/* and /usr/doc/* from the home > computer? Yep, just cvsup, and then tar them up, and copy over. > Is it as simple as that? It should be! Remember, try portsnap for the ports, it should work just fine. Cheers Federico