From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 21:11:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE5F16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E364E43D41 for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([68.69.206.232]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040301051128.IDOO12673.mta10.adelphia.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:11:28 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11D4A990; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (duron.pcmedx.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79380-03; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcmedx.com (mike-bsd.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.242]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABC0A925; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4042C5FE.10009@pcmedx.com> Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:11:26 -0800 From: Mike Maltese User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030908 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20040301045521.63293.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040301045521.63293.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com cc: Tadimeti Keshav Subject: Re: download of all ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:11:29 -0000 Tadimeti Keshav wrote: >the cd contains only the ports skeletons. >What I want is the complete sources for all >applications. > >CVSup, I believe, will only make the source sets >uptodate. > > That's correct, but you said the *ports tree*, not the source for every port in the tree. My question is, why would you want the source for the 10,000+ ports? Are you really planning on installing anywhere close to that many? Heck, between my workstation and my server I probably only have around 300 unique ports installed. I'd also think it would take *several* CD's to hold the entire tree's sources. > --- Mike Maltese wrote: > Tadimeti >Keshav wrote: > > >>>Hi all >>>I use a dial-up connection to connect to the >>> >>> >>internet. >> >> >>>Thus it is painful to install via ports. Has anyone >>>down loaded the entire PORTS tree and would like to >>>distribute it via CD-ROM? I use FreeBSD 5.1. I am >>> >>>