Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:23:35 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <june@adn.edu.ph> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Missing /usr/ports subdirectories Message-ID: <199605221723.KAA04333@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 1996 17:58:50 %2B1000." <Pine.LNX.3.91.960521175404.6013D-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph>
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-------- > > HI !!! > > I noticed that I don't have the /usr/ports subdirectories. I have > read from a lot of e-mails that in there are contained the ports > collection. I installed the 2.2-960501-SNAP distribution and I guess it > was not there. Is there a way I could get the ports collection with > manually FTP-ing each and every subdirs in the download site? Yes, just download the port(s) you want. You don't need the whole collection. Use the tar.gz feature of wu-ftpd to bundle up the directory for you. For example, say I want to pull the top port. I ftp to 'ftp.freebsd.org', cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/sysutils, and get 'top.tar.gz'. I will end up with an archive. I logout and tar xzf top.tar.gz. Viola, I have the port. Now cd to top and make. THat's it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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