From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 10:21:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C92037B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F0843E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g68HLBYn028234; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:21:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g68HL6HD028233; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:21:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:21:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: ABDALLAH Faycal Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: pci internal modems. Message-ID: <20020708172106.GB28011@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF70@MINOS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF70@MINOS> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:32:41PM +0200, ABDALLAH Faycal wrote: > through my internal modem, is there any way to upgrade ports so that i can > install them localy? > ..i think that i can burn a cdrom of all packages (or even source files) but > i still have to upgrade the ports tree so that i can install them, but i > don't know if this will work neither how to do the upgrade. If you grab packages, then you can just use pkg_add to install them. No need to have any sort of ports tree available. Keeping a ports tree up to date without net connectivity is harder. You'll probably need access to a box with an up-to-date ports tree that you can tar up and burn to CD. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message