Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:12:39 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: smaginnity@ccw.vic.edu.au Subject: Re: Download the whole ports tree Message-ID: <20051217071239.GA773@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20051216120050.4C25816A420@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051216120050.4C25816A420@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Message: 20 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:01:37 -0500 > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> > Subject: Re: Download the whole ports tree > To: Simon Maginnity <smaginnity@ccw.vic.edu.au> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20051216070137.GA55600@xor.obsecurity.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:32:33PM +1100, Simon Maginnity wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have unlimited bandwidth for the next month or so and > > will not have access to the net again for a few month?s after January. What > > I would like to do is grab a copy of the whole freeBSD ports tree while I > > can, so I can just play with different programs and things at will on a test > > server. Really just for my own amusement. > > > > Is it possible to get a copy of the whole ports tree down if I have enough > > free space etc etc, or just a copy of one branch like www??? > > The ports tree is not all that large..are you asking about fetching > every port distfile? > > Kris Well, portupgrade -FRaN sounded promising, but upon further reflection, I suspect that would fetch only distfiles for those ports which are already installed, plus any new dependencies that are not yet installed. Perhaps we need a meta-port which includes _everything_ as a build dependency. Then you just fetch that.
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