From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 3:53:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EE737B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C775D43F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) To: Konrad Heuer Cc: scottman@altern.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use Port Collection without cd-rom and internet References: <20030130093502.C14737-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> From: Dan Pelleg Date: 30 Jan 2003 06:53:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030130093502.C14737-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer writes: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 scottman@altern.org wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have access to the net only from Windows 98 and want to take advantage > > of all the ported apps, but I dont have the sources on cd. Is there a > > way (and where) to download the ported tgz files? I have installed the > > Port Collection and just need the right sources. > > > > Any help on this subject would be very welcome! > > Scottman > > After fetching the source packages manually you must copy them to the > /usr/ports/distfiles directory; some ports use specific subdirectories > within /usr/ports/distfiles. > And to get the list of files to download do a "make fetch-list" in the right directory. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message