From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 28 16:53:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from biff.nerdpower.net (c13574-001.nerdpower.net [24.108.37.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CB5614CA0 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 16:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@nerdpower.com) Received: (qmail 13032 invoked by alias); 31 May 1999 04:08:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO flanders) (24.108.37.21) by biff.nerdpower.net with SMTP; 31 May 1999 04:08:28 -0000 From: "Jeff Lush" To: Cc: Subject: RE: CVSup problem Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 17:55:32 -0600 Message-ID: <000001bea965$9259c3e0$15256c18@flanders.nerdpower.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <19990528002231.A842@holly.dyndns.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello again! This command worked after I installed the ports-collection from sysinstall (although I probably could have grabbed the ports initially from this command) and grabbed the ports-supfile from an ftp mirror. > The best way to do this would actually be to execute the > following commands: > > cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup > cvsup -h cvsup.ca.freebsd.org ports-supfile > Now I have a directory filled with the ports for all applications available. A rather elementary question to ask is why keep this kind of directory stored locally? This particular machine is setup as an internet server for learning purposes. Knowing that would I be better off just keeping networking related ports (ports-net) locally? And how does using ports compare to installing packages from sysinstall? Is there any good literature available on explaining exactly what ports are and most importantly, how to use them. Last, what is the source tree (src-all) and should I grab it as well? Thanks for the help and patients with us newbie types. Jeff Lush To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message