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 =0A=0A=0A=0A
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