From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 12:11:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spamgaaa.compuserve.com (as-img-1.compuserve.com [149.174.217.144]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FDB4B16 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by spamgaaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.7) id LAA20199 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:07:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:06:55 -0500 From: Nils Holland Subject: About the PORTS-System To: Freebsd-questions Message-ID: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message