From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 12:56:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7184543E3 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA29059; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:56:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389B3D11.CF780E2E@math.udel.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:56:49 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Holland Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: About the PORTS-System References: <200002041107_MC2-97C2-CB0B@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes. Nils Holland wrote: > 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 -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message