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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports database
Message-ID:  <88227.30824.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin%2B1QUjD7u-HSKPvA3Ca-4dr=bL=ce0oGFE=pdP@mail.gmail.com>

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well, I could just update the database offline, then use another machine=0A=
 download right software and put them in /usr/ports/distfiles...

--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ports database
To: "gahn" <ipfreak@yahoo.com>
Cc: "freebsd general questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 1:07 PM

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> wrote:
=0AHi all:
=0A
=0AIs it possible to update the database of ports offline.
=0A
=0AIt 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 buil=
d the packages there and bring them over.=A0=A0 A ports tree with no intern=
et connection is not always useful.=A0 It doesn't contain the source necess=
ary to build the packages.=A0=20
=0A
--=20
Adam Vande More
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