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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:59:30 -0500
From:      "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        "jher" <jher@io.com>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: suggestion
Message-ID:  <003501bddc4d$e3209dc0$c3e0d9cf@westbend.net>

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From: jher <jher@io.com>
> I would like to suggest a number of different ports kits.
>I work for an ISP and I find myself grabbing the entire ports kit,
installing
>it (which takes forever) and then only using about 20% of the kit, if that.
>What I would like to suggest is twofold:
>
>first:  how about making tar files of each category? I.E. www.tar, net.tar,
>etc.. That way I can just update an entire section of my ports collection
at
>once.
>

Try:

ftp ftp.freebsd.org
cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports
get www.tar

The server will then tar the www directory and send it to you as a tar file.

Scot



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