Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:42:01 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Scott I. Remick" <siremick@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: prefetching port dependencies Message-ID: <20021118224201.GA1555@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20021118223109.60438.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021118223109.60438.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Quick question: > > I'm getting interested in using portupgrade -FR to prefetch a port's source > and its dependencies (and maybe even run the fetching in a 2nd session while > other parts are compiling). But I can only get it to work on stuff that is > already installed. It works great then. > > Is there an equivalent means to prefetch dependencies for a port that ISN'T > installed yet? For example, I hadn't installed mozilla yet on this box but > when I ran: > > portupgrade -FR mozilla-devel > > I got an error that there was no such package installed. > > Sorry if this is a newbie question. > > [I tried to research this but case-insensitivity (-fr is diff than -FR) in > search engines was making it useless.] Go to the desired port and do a 'make fetch-recursive'. This will fetch all the distfiles of the port and all its dependencies. (Doing a 'make checksum-recursive' is an even better idea since that will check all the checksums of the distfiles too.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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