Date: 22 Feb 2005 13:38:31 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Questions about ports Message-ID: <44vf8kzbh4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <003b01c518fd$cabb4430$15cf589d@eis.uva.es> References: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> <44u0o4ljo0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <003b01c518fd$cabb4430$15cf589d@eis.uva.es>
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"Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> writes: > I am sorry, I am now at a winbugs computer at University. ;-) Which probably has fast Internet access, and might be a decent place to FTP from; but you would have to do it by hand, through an FTP client. > IIRC, I will have to donwload manually the packages in wich mozilla depends > on. That was the reason I was looking for the PACKGEROOT and PACKAGESITE > environment variables. I am right? You could do it that way, but you need to know the exact URL of the package file. [PACKAGEROOT doesn't help; it only specifies the host to download from.] You could automatically build the URL in a script, much the way that pkg_add does it internally. I'd still recommend building everything from ports, because you avoid the case of having some packages depending on a slightly different version of a dependency than another package. It takes a long time to build, but who cares -- you don't need to pay attention.
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