Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:59:25 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports database Message-ID: <4c7994cd.zZBjSuPFSUYKdCmf%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20100828203618.45fd6be8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <874453.45134.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100826215346.7aaba141.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100828170745.GA88025@guilt.hydra> <20100828203618.45fd6be8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port > > It should be, better suited: > > # cd /usr > # tar cf ports.tar ports > > So one could do "tar xf ports.tar" in the target machine's /usr > ... Better put the created tarfile somewhere other than in the directory that is being tarred :) and it might as well be compressed, something like: # cd /usr # tar cf - ports | gzip > /var/tmp/ports.tgz
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