From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 18 8:13:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A394537B41D for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBIGDEA80988; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:13:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:13:14 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I update my ports tree? Message-ID: <20011218111314.A80967@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:08:53AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Go to your install media (either the CDROM, or a FTP server with a directory for the release you installed.) You will find a "ports.tgz" that contains the ports tree for your release. tar -xzv ports.tgz will extract it. Voila! Instant ports tree. On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:08:53AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I did not install the ports during the /stand/sysinstall > process to create this FBSD system. Some time later I > wanted to install a port I got from the internet. I could > not install the port because my /usr/port directory tree > did not contain any of the files used by the port system. > > I there a way to get the necessary port system files > created with out having to load the complete port system > from the install CD? > > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall to load all the ports, > but the load ports collection option only comes during > the initial install of FBSD. I can not find a option to > load the ports on the post install configuration option. > There is a option for the packages but not the ports. > > How would I go about getting the complete ports section > off the install cd after the FBSD system is installed? > > Thanks Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message