From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 18:29:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9625116A402 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A26C13C494 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584A4EBC62; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:29:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:29:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: frzburn Message-Id: <20070305132936.61bbd340.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> References: <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching sources from Windows? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:29:38 -0000 In response to frzburn : > Hi! > I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is > possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). > What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( > http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html), > even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my > current source... Sure. It's just a big directory tree full of files. You can fetch them all by whatever means you desire and copy them on to the new system. Just be careful of a few thing, especially with Windows. Windows is case- insensitive, and has a tendency to rename files in all lower case, which will cause "file not found" errors when you try to build. Also, make sure Windows and ftp don't do any line ending translations, which will (effectively) corrupt the files. If you can find somewhere that has a big tarball of the source tree and just grab that, it should work fine. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com