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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:06:55 -0500
From:      Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com>
To:        Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   About the PORTS-System
Message-ID:  <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com>

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Hi folks,
One question: When I use the ports system to install software it fetches
missing stuff from the Internet and stores it under /usr/ports/distfiles.=

Now imagine I've installed Afterstep with the ports system on machine 1.
The next thing I do is installing a fresh free-bsd system on machine 2.
When I copy the files from /usr/ports/distfiles on machine 1 to the same
location on machine 2, will it automatically detect them when I try to
install Afterstep on machine 2, so that it doesn't download the required
files for AfterStep again?

See ya,
Nils
(Also note my question about CD-BURNING with an IDE burner under FreeBSD
I've posted here earlier)


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