Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:17:25 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Update a package Message-ID: <44abbm31ii.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <002a01c94fe0$8a37c870$9ea75950$@com> (Gary Hartl's message of "Wed\, 26 Nov 2008 11\:03\:35 -0500") References: <002801c94fdc$c7206c00$55614400$@com> <f84c38580811260755q4bb397d1m408aa92a885ad7d1@mail.gmail.com> <002a01c94fe0$8a37c870$9ea75950$@com>
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"Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com> writes: > So am I to understand the package tree is considered part of the ports, i've > fetching the packages from > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-6-stable/All/ > > I don't have a local ports tree, since i'm tight on space ( only 20gig HDD > ). > > Can ports be fetched remotely? Sure. pkg_add(1) has a '-r' option for fetching remotely, and portupgrade(1) has a '-P' option to specify using packages (it will fetch from FreeBSD servers if possible). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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