From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 16:21:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30C516A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:21:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5416743D39 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:21:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAJGL8PH080643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:21:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <419E1D6F.6040507@mac.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:21:03 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Moyer References: <148673630411182008412a23a6@mail.gmail.com> <1486736304111906153cab8b28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1486736304111906153cab8b28@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:21:17 -0000 Tom Moyer wrote: > I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles > at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to > be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies > as well. In theory, one could "cd /usr/ports && make fetch". In practice, you will discover that the number and size of files involved is far too large to fit on a CD: you'd need to hold 28 GB or so! [1] Fortunately, you can still use the ports collection for your offline machine, by using a machine which is connected and doing the "make package-recursive" or "make fetch-recursive" commands to grab all of the dependencies as well. -- -Chuck [1]: If the size of distfiles from the ~150 port distfiles I have around is representative of the entire collection of ~11900 ports.