From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 16: 1:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topsecret.net (gill.apk.net [207.54.148.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 321111559F for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gill@topsecret.net) Received: from stumpy by topsecret.net with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:59:35 -0400 From: "James Gill" To: "Lowell Gilbert" , Subject: RE: #make problem Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:00:06 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: gill@topsecret.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -> > -> > You will have to install the ports tree, dont worry about -> disk space, it -> > will only create a directory structure, with the names of the -> programs that -> > you can install, and also it will grab the patches for the -> programs to work -> > well on FreeBSD, and then, you will have to mount your cdroom -> (the one with -> > the tar files in it) in /usr/ports/distfiles, and then: -> -> It's still a lot of space (over 40MB), and a heck of a lot of inodes, -> so this advice won't work for everyone. You can get just the -> /usr/ports/Mk directory off of the FTP site, and that should solve -> this particular problem. Thanks, that looks like the answer I wanted :) I specifically do NOT want to install the entire ports tree, for both disk space and security concerns and when I do put a port or program on this system I want to know *exactly* what it is and why it is there. This is one of my first FreeBSD systems and I am intent on learning the system quite thouroughly -- especially what does what. When I find that Make is broken, I want to know why, what doesn't come with the minimal installation and src files, and what I need to do to fix it. -> > > ...and where can i find a port of the fortune program? :) -> -> It's not a port; it's part of the "games" distribution. Install that, -> and you'll find it in /usr/games/fortune. The games distribution is -> about 2MB, and fortune's databases probably make up most of that. Thanks much, I'll look into it... -> -> Be well. I'll add that to the fortunes ;) =D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message