Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:21:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: ABDALLAH Faycal <faycal.abdallah@cegetel.fr> Cc: FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pci internal modems. Message-ID: <20020708172106.GB28011@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF70@MINOS> References: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF70@MINOS>
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:32:41PM +0200, ABDALLAH Faycal wrote:
> through my internal modem, is there any way to upgrade ports so that i can
> install them localy?
> ..i think that i can burn a cdrom of all packages (or even source files) but
> i still have to upgrade the ports tree so that i can install them, but i
> don't know if this will work neither how to do the upgrade.
If you grab packages, then you can just use pkg_add to install them.
No need to have any sort of ports tree available.
Keeping a ports tree up to date without net connectivity is harder.
You'll probably need access to a box with an up-to-date ports tree
that you can tar up and burn to CD.
Matthew
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