Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:03:04 +0100 From: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg by ftp Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000128155847.038a1540@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001280643320.88633-100000@boris.netgate.net > References: <4.2.2.20000128151755.033c9e00@mail.Go2France.com>
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>Current port is 8.2.2. Have you tried this? If the box isn't already on >the net then fetch these and stuff into /usr/ports/distfiles: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/bind-src.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/bind-doc.tar.gz > >then make away. ============== When grabbing the binary port didn't work, I grabbed the .gz, but ran out of disk space during the compile. old machine, small disk. Why can't I just install the binaries without recompiling? Isn't that the motivation for providing ports and pkgs? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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