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From: Eric Devolder <eric.devolder@gmail.com>
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Subject: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?
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Hi there,

I'm newby to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and here is my wish=
:
I would like to fetch the sources for an old port release ( I know I can
grab it from ftp-archive.freebsd.org <http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org> but I
don't know how to fetch the sources with freebsd command line tools), chang=
e
the makefile and/or patch the source, recompile and possibly make a package
(.tgz) to be installed somewhere else.

My specific questions are:
* how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another
release?
* how to unpack, change the makefile, compile?
* how to package it again?

I've gone through various manuals, without any success so far (at least I'v=
e
got cvsup installed, that's maybe a start...)

Thanks

Eric