Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:51:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric <eric@astria.tek-shop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping a local collection of port sources Message-ID: <20011116105155.I62122@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200111151913.fAFJDj921496@syndicate.tek-shop.com> References: <200111151913.fAFJDj921496@syndicate.tek-shop.com>
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On Thursday, 15 November 2001 at 11:05:31 -0800, Eric wrote: > hello... > > I'm trying to set up a local storage area for all of the ports and packages > including sources and tarballs. I have the CD set, and I want to copy > everything to a dir on a spare hard disk, so when I do a pkg_add or a port > make install, it has a local copy of the code and just compiles it. > > I can't find out how tell the ports system to look at a local directory > rather than the CD. > > This seems simple in theory, and I'm sure it's nothin new, but I'm missing > something. Any ideas? By default, the ports Makefiles search /usr/ports/distfiles/ before anything else. That's also where they get put if they're pulled in over the net. Move your source tarballs there and you should have no problems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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