Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:43:20 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles Message-ID: <43BA8D88.7060002@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <200512312258.40374.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> 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>
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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) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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