From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 04:27:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA18845 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [206.171.98.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA18825 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:27:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA05278; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:27:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:27:31 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Doug White cc: Snob Art Genre , Cliff Addy , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newer pine? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Now a good question is how does one get the ports tree for 2.1.7 > > on a machine? I know in -current, using cvsup will do the -current ports > > tree. > > The magic is in the tag keyword, but I find it infintely easier to just > download ports as I need them from ftp.freebsd.org. Don't forget you can > do 'get port.tar.gz' to get an entire directory archived. I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on freefall then. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]