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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:38:57 +0300
From:      Corvette <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Query about planned install
Message-ID:  <20010123183857.H38604@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <01012310060905.12411@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>;  from "Tim McMillen" on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:06:09AM -0500
References:  <20010123125551.8491.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> <01012310060905.12411@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>

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* Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> [20010123 18:03]: writing on the subject 'Re: Query about planned install'
Tim> On Tuesday January 23, 2001 07:55, you wrote:

Tim> > 6. *this is the biggie*. In /usr/ports, do 'make fetch-list', copy
Tim> > the list to floppy, download all the files in the list in the
Tim> > computer room and transfer in CD-Rs. 7. Build ports
Tim> 
Tim> I can't see the need to build all the ports.  Why not just download the 
Tim> distfiles of the ports you want and transfer them over to yout machine 
Tim> and build those.  A quick way to tell the dependencies is to run a 
Tim> make clean   in the specific port dir to tell what the port cleans up.  

You can also give the cmmd  

make all-depends-list


-Wash

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