From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 9 1:49:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7A837B405 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f998Tvq38624; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:29:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:29:57 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Dan Langille Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting the ports tree Message-ID: <20011009092957.B966@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3BC20C95.15121.5E42836@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UvwuEPigQXXfOf7G" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC20C95.15121.5E42836@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:29:09PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --UvwuEPigQXXfOf7G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:29:09PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > IIRC, the handbook at one time or another contained instructions=20 > for installing the ports tree. Newbies need that. I looked tonight > for those instructions. I failed to find them at the website under > handbook/ports and under /ports. I hope I'm going blind because > a step by step process would be nice to refer users to. Are they > there? >=20 > FWIW: I remember two methods: >=20 > 1 - cvsup That, at least, is in the "Obtaining FreeBSD" appendix. > 2 - /stand/sysinstall Never done that. I don't recall seeing it documented. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --UvwuEPigQXXfOf7G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvCtYQACgkQk6gHZCw343WHHgCfUtkpeS9GA2HxnOEB0Xa59uU9 2a8An0jiIsgOawZwziWi2Usm606p9ten =14cF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UvwuEPigQXXfOf7G-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message