Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:53:34 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If cvsup's a no-go, will copying work? Message-ID: <3a386af20707041653s5d331d3bh4ba0ec91e606df45@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <253689.59522.qm@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <253689.59522.qm@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 7/5/07, Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> wrote: > I received permission to install a *nix at work. I installed FreeBSD 6.2; > but I am unable to cvsup successfully. I've tried the various modes. I've > even tried nesting it in a Python script that tries to get authorization > through a proxy -- it didn't help, but was worth a try. Have you tried portsnap? Since it runs over normal http you should have no issues. As for the source tree... > I really, really, really want to get past the xorg 7* issue before I have a > lot of applications installed. > > If a computer at home is up-to-date, can I: > > 1. Delete /usr/src/*, /usr/ports/* and /usr/doc/* from the work computer; > and Shouldn't really be nessacery, but why not. > 2. copy the /usr/src/*, /usr/ports/* and /usr/doc/* from the home > computer? Yep, just cvsup, and then tar them up, and copy over. > Is it as simple as that? It should be! Remember, try portsnap for the ports, it should work just fine. Cheers Federico
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