Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:49:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk> Cc: wayne@moneyworld.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Message-ID: <20000207154916.D1906@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <20000207101708.E96749@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002011811030.5700-100000@wayne.office.moneyworld.co.uk> <20000207101708.E96749@extremis.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:17:08AM +0000, George Cox wrote: > 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. > Caveat. Some ports expect the tarballs to be in a sub-directory of /usr/ports/distfiles. For instance XFree86 expects them to be in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc, Staroffice in /usr/ports/distfiles/staroffice5 Check the ``DIST_SUBDIR= '' line in the Makefile, it gives you the name of the sub-directory of /usr/ports/distfiles to use. HTH > 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 -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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