From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 13:12:59 2003 Return-Path: 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 486ED16A4CF for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailfe01.liwest.at (lilzmailfe01.liwest.at [212.33.55.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C2A43FDD for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from [212.33.58.27] (helo=cm58-27.liwest.at) by lilzmailfe01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AK2IK-00089g-Vv; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:12:57 +0100 From: Daniela To: "Preston Crawford" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:08:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311122208.43609.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:12:59 -0000 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:48, Preston Crawford wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system > that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the > stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via > ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible > to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you > don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this is, though. By > that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in > this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd > like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. > However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will > be looking for these files. Anyone know? Look into the makefile for the port. There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Daniela