Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:02:15 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: june@adn.edu.ph Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing /usr/ports subdirectories Message-ID: <199605222202.WAA02279@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960521175404.6013D-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph> (june@adn.edu.ph)
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> 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? In fact, each port is just a skeleton - when you type 'make', it pulls down the source from the CD or by FTP, saving you from having to download all the source for every single port. Clever eh? 8-) Also, FreeBSD's FTP server supports on-the-fly archiving and compression, so you can do something like:- $ ftp ftp.freebsd.org # Or a local mirror > cd /where/the/ports/live > get audio.tar.gz # FTP server will tar & gzip the audio ports > quit $ tar xzvf audio.tar.gz to get all the audio ports at once! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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