From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 05:05:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 A118C16A4CF for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 05:05:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558FE43D39 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 05:05:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7455Ci5087615; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:05:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i7455Bqa087612; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:05:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:05:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Peter Ryan In-Reply-To: <1091589404.4110551c8311a@arrowana.singnet.com.sg> Message-ID: <20040804065940.W87561@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <1091589404.4110551c8311a@arrowana.singnet.com.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:26 -0000 On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Peter Ryan wrote: > I am very new, and have been reinstalling > FreeBSD many times to clean up whatever > mess i make and start again. > > I recently used cvsup to update my > ports collection for the 4.10_RELEASE. > > Now, when I reinstall, it takes much longer > because i bring in the updated ports collection > rather than the ports collection on the > install CD (which i burnt from an ISO file) > The whole portscollection is also available via ftp: on ftp2.de.freebsd.org: ftp> pwd 257 "/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports" is current directory. ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,76,11,100,141,111) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 25760 drwxr-xr-x 2 emoenke ftp 4096 Aug 3 01:53 . drwxr-xr-x 11 emoenke ftp 4096 Jul 29 2003 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 1006 Jun 19 01:49 README.TXT -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 26332175 Aug 3 01:26 ports.tar.gz 226 Transfer complete. simply download the tar.gz, and extract it to /usr/ports On each ISO of a release, like the 4.10R-CD #1, they take a snapshot of the ports tree when the make the assumption that it ist quite consistent. So when you download in say, 3 months a 4.10 ISO, the ports tree therein will be more than 3 months old. In that case, use whether cvsup or method above to get a recent ports tree. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)