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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:06:42 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        Lee Lispon <lee@pogg.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup problem Please Help
Message-ID:  <F0CBCAA363EFCC30CDD57BA9@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200409090539.i895dO2D056207@gandalf.pogg.net>
References:  <200409090539.i895dO2D056207@gandalf.pogg.net>

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--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 01:39:24 AM -0400 Lee Lispon 
<lee@pogg.net> wrote:

> Hello. I am running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I have recently had a problem
> with  ports and cannot get the ports to download completely. Basically,
> in an effort to save space and exclude ports that I never need like x11,
> japanese, etc..

I did this once.  It isn't worth it.

Each port is about 24k in size.  They usually consist of a handful of 
files.  The only ones that are larger are ones that you've built *if* you 
don't "make clean" or "make distclean" after building the port.

When I build a port I always do it like this:

% make install clean

Not cvsupping all the ports leads to more problems than it solves.  If you 
really don't have that much space, get another hard drive.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu



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