From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 14:20:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C6B16A41C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:20:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F062143D45 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:20:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 7448 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2005 14:20:50 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jul 2005 14:20:50 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id A013A42; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Emil Khatib To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 16 Jul 2005 10:20:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44u0iuzvb2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: Download ports from another machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:20:51 -0000 Emil Khatib writes: > Hi everybody, I'm using freebsd on a 56k connection, so you'll > probably imagine how frustrating is to spend hours and hours > downloading a simple program (plus its dozens of dependecies). I > wanted to know if there is any way to get a list and download the > programs from another computer with a faster connection. My problem is > that I have only access to machines using Windows, so I can't do a > "make fetch-recursive"... "make fetch-recursive-list" -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/