From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 0:12:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6393537B4F4 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:12:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DD043E3B for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA24186; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:12:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE089D1.8000906@owt.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:12:01 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Ports base? References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Leftwich wrote: > I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it started to > download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. > > Is there a part of the handbook that explains how to do this? Or is there > a single command line I can use to cvsup the ports base? I'm overdue. > Copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to someplace convienent. Edit it and comment the ports-all and uncomment "#ports-base" and use it as the command argument to cvsup. It still sounds like you are trying to install the transmission and ignore the rest of the car. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message