From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 01:27:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD541065670 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEFE8FC19 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6N1Qtc3067357 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:26:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4C48EFDB.5050408@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:26:51 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <4C48EE42.1050102@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4C48EE42.1050102@a1poweruser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:26:55 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o6N1Qtc3067357 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: ports INDEX file 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: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:27:04 -0000 On 7/22/2010 8:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have a pristine install of 8.0. > There is no /usr/ports directory yet. > I am trying to use the "portcheckout" port and the "porteasy" port to > just populate the ports tree with only the ports I use. > > Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file > to process and since I have none they don't work. > > How can I just download the ports INDEX file? > Portsnap is not a solution. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You can use 'csup' to get the ports tree down. You'll find the relevant config file (assuming you installed the source tree) at: /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/