From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 12: 0:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.hawaii.edu (relay4.hawaii.edu [128.171.94.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0E9637B6B4 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:00:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rohrer@hawaii.edu) Received: from uhunix2.its.hawaii.edu ([128.171.44.7]) by relay4.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <130153(4)>; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:00:25 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix2.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <183048(2)>; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:00:11 -1000 From: Matt Rohrer To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports install question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:00:22 -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > I'm a two week old FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE newbe and have a > simple question that I can't seem to find an answer too. > > On CD 4 there are megabytes of files in the "distfiles" > and "ports/distfiles". I would assume that the files in > these two directories are the same? > > If I have the /cdrom mounted and I'm trying to do a port of > an app, should the "make" check the /cdrom for the > "distfiles" files after it checks /usr/ports/distfiles or do > I have to copy all those megabytes of "distfiles" to my HD > so that the "make" can find and use them? Yes, the makefile will check the CD before attempting to fetch over the 'net. > > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken > www.cwaiken.com > chris@cwaiken.com > FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message