From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 20 20:54:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD118106566B for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0588FC18 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:54:45 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KRT00576ZF4GD90@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Chuck Swiger To: Noah In-reply-to: <4ADE1F2A.6020601@enabled.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:54:40 -0700 References: <4ADE1F2A.6020601@enabled.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports 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: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:54:45 -0000 On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Noah wrote: > I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build > from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is > needed for the build and then it is removed? You're describing the default behavior of ports-- it only downloads sources which are needed for the current build. To clean up sources and so forth, look to portsclean (from portupgrade). You might also consider using pre-built packages, where available. Regards, -- -Chuck