Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:35:12 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles Message-ID: <42447600.1060504@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <42442214.1040008@mac.com> References: <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de> <42442214.1040008@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger schrieb: > O. Hartmann wrote: > [ ... ] > >> Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to >> gather all tarballs from each installed port and its friends it >> depends on. >> Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help. > > > Try using "make fetch-recursive" from a port's directory to fetch the > source tarballs for that port and it's dependencies. Note that you > can also create packages from the installed ports and copy those over > to another machine, and install them directly rather than recompiling > everything. > > [ Start with a "mkdir /usr/ports/packages", and the ports system will > create package tarballs automaticly under there... ] > All right, this works, but I still have to check what port is installed. The reason for this uncommon way is, my lab's computer is a i386 machine while at home I would like to run an amd64 based system without IA32 compatibility. Building packages on the source machine isn't an option. Thank you very much for that hint. Oliver
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