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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:35:12 +0100
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles
Message-ID:  <42447600.1060504@mail.uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <42442214.1040008@mac.com>
References:  <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de> <42442214.1040008@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger schrieb:

> O. Hartmann wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
>> Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to 
>> gather all tarballs from each installed port and its friends it 
>> depends on.
>> Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help.
>
>
> Try using "make fetch-recursive" from a port's directory to fetch the 
> source tarballs for that port and it's dependencies.  Note that you 
> can also create packages from the installed ports and copy those over 
> to another machine, and install them directly rather than recompiling 
> everything.
>
> [ Start with a "mkdir /usr/ports/packages", and the ports system will 
> create package tarballs automaticly under there... ]
>
All right, this works, but I still have to check what port is installed.

The reason for this uncommon way is, my lab's computer is a i386 machine 
while at home I would like to run an amd64
based system without IA32 compatibility. Building packages on the source 
machine isn't an option.

Thank you very much for that hint.

Oliver



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