From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 20:07:37 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 4F10B10656A6 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:07:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41B18FC21 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so2233691qwg.13 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Jt+OWWeWIJwCNbHqFJ1IHwYCFg8mdSJgafYZYV7n7wo=; b=CBDZuldvA7Pw/vXrGWY6M5wt8KdbYdHgH2FdPpAI8JST9s0H4MV+SJ6JWLzPyH2XW/ x5+RWxZMyDLjZ0l0CFUf2g6OtVn1QT1Jw7qKXbjhbp/qdVr7yUbdx9xNSbBu9zXhW9Ba VLobIfglcmcr9dz/79XiTmAVNY0/pY9DPg0EE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=dzMT8huzbyp0B1oMJ3qyq2RFm+jEL/aHZQFlkHFijNhpRt80IukRbtjE0qgD48k5G2 oDigtKYUcZV1cYFW4fi7J6payjDaCZNUbUysfwerTXOyzqcbd3gYIkzx/9uUbOsFvmFV dywD1EvmTotE6GV+jXmv5jCAPFDpTT0ZFJC5w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.54.143 with SMTP id q15mr5656817qag.395.1282853256122; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.75.76 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874453.45134.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <874453.45134.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:07:36 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: gahn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: ports database 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: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:07:37 -0000 On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, gahn wrote: > Hi all: > > Is it possible to update the database of ports offline. > > It is nice to use "portsnap fetch/extract/update", but I can't use that > since one of my server has no connection to the internet... > If you have another machine available, it probably makes more sense to build the packages there and bring them over. A ports tree with no internet connection is not always useful. It doesn't contain the source necessary to build the packages. -- Adam Vande More