From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 7:38:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33CA37B699 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14L5VI-000OKq-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:37:06 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14L5X7-000AFh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:38:57 +0300 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:38:57 +0300 From: Corvette To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query about planned install Message-ID: <20010123183857.H38604@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Corvette , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010123125551.8491.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> <01012310060905.12411@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01012310060905.12411@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>; from "Tim McMillen" on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:06:09AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Tim McMillen [20010123 18:03]: writing on the subject 'Re: Query about planned install' Tim> On Tuesday January 23, 2001 07:55, you wrote: Tim> > 6. *this is the biggie*. In /usr/ports, do 'make fetch-list', copy Tim> > the list to floppy, download all the files in the list in the Tim> > computer room and transfer in CD-Rs. 7. Build ports Tim> Tim> I can't see the need to build all the ports. Why not just download the Tim> distfiles of the ports you want and transfer them over to yout machine Tim> and build those. A quick way to tell the dependencies is to run a Tim> make clean in the specific port dir to tell what the port cleans up. You can also give the cmmd make all-depends-list -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. -Mignon McLaughlin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message