From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 21 13:41:05 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA04543 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:41:05 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04536 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:41:00 -0800 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA10353; Tue, 21 Mar 95 13:39:25 -0800 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 21 Mar 95 22:38 MET Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 22:38 MET From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: chaos@rivers.oscs.montana.edu Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How too??? Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.ports References: Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.ports you write: >I read the FAQ in /usr/share/FAQ but was unable to answer the most >important question. How? How do I pull ports over ftp without having to >re-create (by hand) every subdirectory in the ports collection and >performing an mget * for each of them? Get the whole stuff (or subdirectories you're intereted in) as compressed tar file using wu-ftpd's magic: cd /pub/FreeBSD get ports.tar.gz <- where there's a directory ports >It seems to me that there should be a world mountable F.S. for me too >"mount r" that I can use to run the makefiles directly off of. Hmm, I suppose you could do this by defining WRKDIR to point somewhere writable (as an environment variable), but then *every* port would share it. Michael -- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)