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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:49:23 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano <mseqs@bsd.com.br>
Subject:   Re: Download all source before compiling the port
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:

> On 09.06.2016 01:19, David Wolfskill wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:15:04PM -0300, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to download everything required by a port before starting 
>>> to
>>> build it and its dependencies (so I can let it to build later without an
>>> internet connection). Thanks in advance.
>>> ....
>> 
>> I have been using (and still use) "portmaster" to update
>> locally-inistalled ports on a couple machines (one of which is my
>> laptop).
>> 
>> Quite some time ago, I started running "portmaster -aF" specificially
>> for this purpose (while rebuilding base FreeBSD), prior to a subsequent
>> "portmaster -ad" (after the reboot).
>> 
>> Caveat: portmaster is ... rather deprecated of late.  See ports@
>> archives for further discussion on that topic.  (in fact, Ii'll redirect
>> this to ports@, as it's a ports issue.)
>
> It is not deprecated. There was a long time without any maintainer, but i 
> took the maintainership some time ago.

And for that, many of us are grateful.  Thanks!



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