Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:22:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Soren Ragsdale <soren@primenet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where ports are from Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128011900.15449A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980127224344.25965A-100000@usr02.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Soren Ragsdale wrote: > I administrate several unix machines. I like FreeBSD quite a bit, and > wish that Solaris or Linux had a ports collection. They don't, and > frequently when I want to compile a new version of something I have a hard > time finding out where to FTP the source from. > > Is there any chance that in the web version of the FreeBSD ports > collection at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html, for each port, you > could list where the installer will FTP the source from? A directory of > FTPable unix code would be handy. Well, I can't speak for sticking stuff on the web page, but if you have the ports collection installed on one FreeBSD machine, you can check the Makefile for the port you want. For instance, from /usr/ports/security/sudo/Makefile: MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/sudo/ Many of them have several sites to try, also. You might well have to do some patching to get it to compile cleanly onder Solaris or Linux, though. Also, have you considered using archie? I've had a fair bit of sucess using xarchie in the past to find things I needed. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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