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Date:      Thu, 9 Jun 2016 09:46:41 +0200
From:      Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano <mseqs@bsd.com.br>
Subject:   Re: Download all source before compiling the port
Message-ID:  <7cc12c47-b97d-c979-958d-53aa68c5da15@toco-domains.de>
In-Reply-To: <20160608231922.GR28804@albert.catwhisker.org>
References:  <CA%2B627Jp2mNKPvx36iJ1VzHEiwqCZ%2BQA7CLkzP8gvLTveyZk9Fw@mail.gmail.com> <20160608231922.GR28804@albert.catwhisker.org>

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On 09.06.2016 01:19, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:15:04PM -0300, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to download everything required by a port before starting to
>> build it and its dependencies (so I can let it to build later without an
>> internet connection). Thanks in advance.
>> ....
>
> I have been using (and still use) "portmaster" to update
> locally-inistalled ports on a couple machines (one of which is my
> laptop).
>
> Quite some time ago, I started running "portmaster -aF" specificially
> for this purpose (while rebuilding base FreeBSD), prior to a subsequent
> "portmaster -ad" (after the reboot).
>
> Caveat: portmaster is ... rather deprecated of late.  See ports@
> archives for further discussion on that topic.  (in fact, Ii'll redirect
> this to ports@, as it's a ports issue.)

It is not deprecated. There was a long time without any maintainer, but 
i took the maintainership some time ago.

Greetings,
Torsten



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