From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 08:49:26 2003 Return-Path: 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 E09F037B401 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5352F43FA3 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h3GFnGV00672; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:49:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Wayne Pascoe , Jalle Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:49:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030416170103.00bb9840@pop3.hbg.bonet.se> <20030416155426.GA14828@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030416155426.GA14828@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304160849.16732.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching sources for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:49:27 -0000 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