Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:49:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>, Jalle <defacto@home.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching sources for ports Message-ID: <200304160849.16732.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030416155426.GA14828@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030416170103.00bb9840@pop3.hbg.bonet.se> <20030416155426.GA14828@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 08:54 am, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:12:30PM +0200, Jalle wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to fetch the sources > > (tarballs, gzips, bzips etc) for a port, including it's > > dependencies, without installing the whole thing right away? > > I could, of course, check http://www.freebsd.org/ports and see what > > the requirements are, download these, see what the requirements for > > the requirements are, download there, see what the... (you get it > > right?) But for a rather large port (like KDE, which I happened to > > have in mind) this would take ages! > > In the port directory, make fetch will fetch the sources. > > I'm not sure how this works for meta ports like KDE, Gnome and X11. > I'm also not sure if this will recurse and fetch ports for dependency > apps. I use "make fetch-recursive". When I did this in ../kde3, it fetched all of the updated tarballs for 3.1.1. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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