From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 01:56:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D051A16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:56:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E3243D1D for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:56:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fatcat1985@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so390630wra for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:56:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Ewszym+14mAC/uYZoFVcUQiAYzHU1GvOe8WcP+IgACNp4hvSuy6YLp7xK3geYcakRAn4C0vveXZyl6umiDJ0SvNgUy4PNRcXFgro0ThBcMQufCdK/JBDyyKd4hCg3UH3/I0vNyoLHhJmAz0QVGoZ6Ocq4EApONcyJukTRixx+x8= Received: by 10.54.5.66 with SMTP id 66mr67258wre; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.35.38 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:56:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3d92e23305021117566e43b0b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:56:13 +0800 From: =?UTF-8?B?6ICXIOWtkA==?= To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <420CF1B1.7070906@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3d92e23305021104571acce3b7@mail.gmail.com> <1225949715.20050211142137@hexren.net> <420CF1B1.7070906@daleco.biz> Subject: Re: How to install ports from CD-ROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?UTF-8?B?6ICXIOWtkA==?= List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:56:15 -0000 Maybe you were misunderstanding me because of my bad english.:( I did not mean that I would not download source codes from Internet, but download it from another site. Take installing vim for example, after I type "make install" in /usr/ports/editors/vim, Freebsd will try to download files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. However, I want to let it download from ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org. How to make it ? Thank you. On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:56:01 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Hexren wrote: > > >>Hi.every one. > >>When I was installing Freebsd 5.3, I found it downloaded ports from > >>the internet although I select CD-ROM as my install media.How to stop > >>that? Since I did not use a high-speed internet connect, it cost me a > >>lot of time. > >>BTW: Could someone tell me how to change the site from which FreeBSD > >>ports to download the source cod. > >> > >> > >On the other hand you can simply put port files (for example > >"samba-3.0.7.tar.gz" for samba3) into /usr/ports/distfiles. > >The ports install proces alway looks there first if the file he needs > >is already there and if it is uses it. > > > >Regards > >Hexren > > > > > > Concur. Move the tarballs (foo.gz, bar.bz2, whatever) to > /usr/ports/distfiles and then try "make install clean" in the > port's "skeleton directory". > > Kevin Kinsey >