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Date:      Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:58:38 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles
Message-ID:  <200512312258.40374.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <43B53C1A.2020809@scls.lib.wi.us>
References:  <20051229141409.GA7881@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20051230082550.GA4596@rebelion.Sisis.de> <43B53C1A.2020809@scls.lib.wi.us>

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On Friday 30 December 2005 13:54, Greg Barniskis wrote:

> distribution ISOs as packages. Again, if you simply must have
> sources not packages, then at your high speed location, do something
> like:
>
> portupgrade -F '*'
>
> Then burn your own ISOs any which way you like. Try to be more
> specific about what you want than '*' or you may be sorry due to the
> sheer volume -- do you really want all of the sources for nearly
> 14,000 ports?

"*" is a package glob that applies only to the entries in the package 
database, so you wont get the source 14,000 ports, unless you've already 
installed them all. 



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