From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 17 18:52:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC9D152B9 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.32]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA25436 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:49:28 -0400 Message-ID: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:31:11 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Time to split the ports collection? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi; I installed 3.1 and was going to start building new ports when I found that installing the complete ports tree was a requirement !!. I am not interested in extracting the complete tree, after all this is already packaged. The fact is that since the ports system is now on /usr/ports/Mk, and these files are not available by default, nor are they on the live filesystem , I had to start installing the complete ports tree and when sysinstall finished installing the /usr/ports/Mk dir, I abruptly stopped the installation with Ctrl-C. There clearly has to be a different way of installing the base files, either a "base port tools" package should be added, or the ports distribution should be installable by branches like src is. hope this helps for a future release, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message