Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:38:37 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Ports FAQ is a great read [port.tar??] Message-ID: <20021014233020.W308-100000@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <20021015011627.X4776-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On 1 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > non-cvsup method 3: > > -- cd /usr/ports/<sub> > > fetch > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/<sub>/port.tar > > tar -xf port.tar > > Note: Not all of the mirrors support tar-on-the-fly ftp transfers, but some do, including the primary site. > > What is "tar-on-the-fly?" Case in point: A server-side feature that will run "tar," "gzip" and friends to nicely package things up for you when you access certain paths (e.g directories) with certain suffixes (such as ".tar", ".tgz" etc). > # mkdir /usr/ports/java ; cd /usr/ports/java > # fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/java/jdk13.tar > fetch: jdk13.tar: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > > I am losing faith in my abilities and am most certainly settling on a life > of /stand/sysinstall and `pkg_add -r` :-( Can someone offer me hope? Try a client that does recursive ftp, for example "wget" (should be installable with "pkg_add -r wget", I guess), or "llnxdir" if you want a GUI (requires Motif, though). $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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