Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:36:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports database Message-ID: <20100828203618.45fd6be8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100828170745.GA88025@guilt.hydra> References: <874453.45134.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100826215346.7aaba141.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100828170745.GA88025@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:45 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > At least you need one machine with Internet connection to get > > the ports update, e. g. using "portsnap fetch extract" or > > "make update" (using csup). Once done, tar cf ports.tar /usr/ports > > and transfer the file to the server without Internet connection; > > finally extract it there. > > Is that supposed to say this? > > tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port It should be, better suited: # cd /usr # tar cf ports.tar ports So one could do "tar xf ports.tar" in the target machine's /usr directory which would create /usr/ports in the version obtained; a previously existing ports/ subtree could be removed prior to extraction. I think the - infront of the options string isn't neccessary for tar, but it's optional in this case. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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