Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:40:32 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "'emailrob' spellberg" <emailrob@emailrob.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are the tarballs? Message-ID: <01112722403202.69260@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <3C03E0D8.448A6B11@emailrob.com> References: <3C03E0D8.448A6B11@emailrob.com>
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The tarballs are on the internet. That's the way that ports work. If you
have the cdroms because you have dialup speed, you want the *packages*, not
the ports. The packages are ready-to-install precompiled binaries. The
ports are basically automated recipies for building the source obtained from
the standard distribution sites. That's just the way it is.
That said, it does seem that it might be a handy thing to put the legally
unencumbered distribution images on some disk(s) of the set.
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 13:52, 'emailrob' spellberg wrote:
> to whomever can answer this ---
>
> i've gone through lehey 3rd edition.
>
> ditto online handbook.
>
> there is --NO-- /cdrom/ports/distfiles.
>
> there are no distfiles anywhere
> except /usr/ports and it is empty.
>
> there are no ports on disks 2, 3 or 4.
>
> i checked 3.2, 4.2 and 4.4.
>
> make wants a tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles.
>
> objective: install everything on the cds.
>
> plan b: install everything perl.
>
> holy grail: "hello, world" using perl/tk.
>
> i have run the install script in /cdrom/ports.
> i have installed the cvs-repository.
>
> i buy the cds because all i have is dialup speed.
>
> q: where are the tarballs?
>
> the only tarballs i find are in individual packages.
>
> am i supposed to install packages one-by-one?
>
> what happens to specifying options?
>
> what is the current correct procedure
> to transfer everything on the cds to hard drive?
>
> tia
>
> rob spellberg
> harvard, illinois
>
> emailrob@emailrob.com
>
> ps: /stand/sysinstall does not recognize
> the fbsd disks as fbsd disks.
>
> also, the mount point is called /cdrom.
>
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