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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:01:57 -0400
To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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Subject: Re: distfiles
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On May 23, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Vizion wrote:
> Does anyone happen to know the size of a full collection of distfiles?

About 25 to 30 GB.

> Presumably it could be obtained by cvsup using the command 
> distfiles-all?

No, cvsup deals with the ports skeleton itself, not with the distfiles. 
  Try:

cd /usr/ports
make fetch

...and be prepared to wait and consume excessive disk space...

-- 
-Chuck