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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2006 13:39:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Message-ID:  <200605141139.k4EBdDY4038836@hardy.tmseck.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060513211306.GG714@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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* Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>:

> On Sat, 2006-May-13 21:39:46 +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
>>If bandwidth really is a problem, then it is possible - but not
>>necessarily a good idea - to check out individual ports via CVS.
> 
> This is not supported.  If you want to build ports from source,
> you _must_ have a complete and consistent ports tree.  Otherwise
> you are on your own.

If one wants to checkout only the necessary bits of the ports tree via
CVS, des' porteasy script is worth a try (it's found in misc/porteasy).



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