From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 15:38:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ultra.comspace.com (209-16-25-2.insync.net [209.16.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FEA37B4EC for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:38:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from danield (cs16255-115.houston.rr.com [24.162.55.115]) by ultra.comspace.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00860; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:37:30 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <022601c08b15$bee003a0$ca2710d1@comspace.com> From: "Daniel Domengeaux" To: "Wonderful One" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: Ports Question :-) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:37:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you should really jusy update your ports tree with cvs its alot easier to keep up-to-date and you don't have to worry about weird web paths in the tar files :) but just copying the files over to /usr/ports will work also -daniel | When you get a port from the ports site where are you supposed to untar it | from on your box? Are you supposed to untar it from root (/)? My ports | branch is /usr/ports the tar goes: | pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/........? Is there something I am | missing here? The method I use is to just copy the port into the | /usr/ports/whatever/myportis. | | Stupid question but would love to know the answer, though. | | Wonderful One To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message