From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 14:43:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B1CD516A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:43:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADC843D5C for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:43:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k03EhKR4000260; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:43:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43BA8D88.7060002@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:43:20 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <20051229141409.GA7881@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20051230082550.GA4596@rebelion.Sisis.de> <43B53C1A.2020809@scls.lib.wi.us> <200512312258.40374.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200512312258.40374.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:43:21 -0000 RW wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 13:54, Greg Barniskis wrote: > > >>distribution ISOs as packages. Again, if you simply must have >>sources not packages, then at your high speed location, do something >>like: >> >>portupgrade -F '*' >> >>Then burn your own ISOs any which way you like. Try to be more >>specific about what you want than '*' or you may be sorry due to the >>sheer volume -- do you really want all of the sources for nearly >>14,000 ports? > > > "*" is a package glob that applies only to the entries in the package > database, so you wont get the source 14,000 ports, unless you've already > installed them all. Yeah, I guess I knew that wasn't quite right, thus the hedge language: "something like". I suppose I should have just said "see man portupgrade" or taken the time to do that myself. Thanks for the clarification. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348