From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 7: 5:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ms1.meiway.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E337F1501A for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lconrad@Go2France.com) Received: from sv [212.73.210.75] by ms1.meiway.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0744B2B01A2; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:06:28 +0100 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000128155847.038a1540@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:03:04 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: pkg by ftp In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000128151755.033c9e00@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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