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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:39:52 -0500
From:      Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?5a2Q6ICX?= <fatcat1985@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question about dwnloading Ports
Message-ID:  <42B2C498.8090407@scls.lib.wi.us>
In-Reply-To: <3d92e23305061705272654300a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3d92e23305061705272654300a@mail.gmail.com>

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子耗 wrote:
> I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so
> I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot
> of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could
> download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my moible harddisk and then, I
> could install softwares after I get home. It is of no use to download
> the ports trees only. I need to download all the source codes the
> first time, and I could use cvs system to update it.
> 

I don't think you will be able to update ports source code with CVS, 
only the core FreeBSD sources. Someone may have a recipe for mass 
downloading the ports distfiles, but I've never thought about doing 
that so I can't comment.

You might consider buying the CD or DVD release sets from 
freebsdmall.com. They come with many additional ports packages.

-- 
Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
South Central Library System (SCLS)
Library Interchange Network (LINK)
<gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348



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