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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:52:19 +0100
From:      Jona Joachim <jaj13@web.de>
To:        gareth <bsd@lordcow.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fetch info
Message-ID:  <455340A3.10009@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061109141502.GA13814@lordcow.org>
References:  <20061109141502.GA13814@lordcow.org>

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gareth wrote:
> hey guys, i'm struggling to find out how to do this, for example from
> the help page:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
> # make
>>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/.
> ===>  Extracting for lsof-4.57
> 
> 
> how do i figure out before typing make what that url is? (the filename
> part seems to be under 'distinfo'). for instance i'd like to download
> all the necessary tarballs before running 'portupgrade' to make the
> actual upgrade quicker.

Just type:

# make fetch

or

# make fetch-recursive

to get the distfiles for the dependencies, too.

The url is located in the Makefile

Best regards,
Jona



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