From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 6:30:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F32243F1F for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 06:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99531 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Feb 2000 10:17:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:17:08 +0000 From: George Cox To: wayne@moneyworld.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Message-ID: <20000207101708.E96749@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from wayne@moneyworld.co.uk on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 06:12:02PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01/02 18:12, wayne@moneyworld.co.uk wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh from the ports directory on a machine... Does > this require the machine to be connected to the internet? Nope. You can mount the CDROM which has the ports distfiles on it on /cdrom -- the port installation mechanism will look in there. > Is there any way to dump the source tarball on the local machine and do > it this way? Yes. Look in the Makefile in the directory of the port you wish to install and you will see URLs for the tarball required. Fetch those tarballs -- you may have you chase port dependencies and put them into /usr/ports/distfiles. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] Powered by SMP FreeBSD "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar." -- D.E. Knuth http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message