From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 5:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE2A37B526 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 05:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.249]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA43569; Fri, 12 May 2000 15:10:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 12 May 2000 14:25:02 +0200 Message-ID: <01BFBC1D.DC0EE3A0.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Reply-To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" To: "'Bart Lateur'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: SV: About the "ports" Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:25:00 +0200 Organization: PlymoVent AB X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-post/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have some doubts about the ports. > First of all, I've already installed a few apps, and most of the ports I > have on my local system (in /usr/ports/), are already out of date. So I > have doubts if it's any use for keeping a rather complete ports tree on > disk at all? Not unless you don't update it, or just want to have a static snapshot. > Second: why are the ports distributed as a subtree with lots of small > files? That doesn't make sense. Downloading the files for a port from > the net is pretty difficult. I have to get my ports on my Windows PC. My > internet connection on FreeBSD box isn't working yet. Using a plain > browser is absolutely impractical. Using an FTP client works. But I > still have the problem that the file ownership and permissions aren't > right when placed on the FreeBSD box. Difficult?? It's not diffcult at all, just type 'make install' and it will fetch it for you, but you said you didnt have an internet connection working yet on your FreeBSD boxen. Very well, configure it as a ftpserver on the internal net with /usr/port/distfiles as toplevel directory and just ftp the files over then. When installing the ports as root the permissions shouldn't matter at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message