Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:13:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org Message-ID: <517EC655.10302@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130429183305.GA4008@acampbell.org.uk> References: <20130429183305.GA4008@acampbell.org.uk>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2PWMKSGAPKVWCDSDMEVDC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29/04/2013 19:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a > newbie here. >=20 > I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. > After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the > command >=20 > svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm >=20 > but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something.= > Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from > freshports.org? Freshports just shows information about the status and history of various ports. It is not itself a package repository or a source code mirror. If you want to check out just one port like that (which won't actually be a lot of use on it's own -- usually it's best to download the whole ports tree) then read these sections of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn-mirrors.htm= l and your command would be something like: svn co https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/x11-wm/spectrwm \ /usr/ports/x11-wm/spectrwm us-east is generally the best choice of SVN mirror for people in Europe at the moment. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk ------enig2PWMKSGAPKVWCDSDMEVDC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlF+xlUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx6jgCdECabYJ0cobiGkPI8XpfA6L3U jb4AnRNCLbZCAz6dIYZe4NstCMUzHzhN =n6aD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2PWMKSGAPKVWCDSDMEVDC--
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