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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