From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 7:19:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6458437B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 07:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b037.otenet.gr [195.167.121.165]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4TEJBe21562; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:19:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4TEA0C54464; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:10:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:10:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gallagher Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indexing CDs Message-ID: <20010529170959.A54426@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mgllghr@bu.edu on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0400, Gallagher wrote: | Hi Everyone, | I couldn't find this anywhere. Is there any way to index the CDs | in the Powerpak version of FreeBSD? What I mean is, if I go to /usr/ports | and make something it checks my cdrom drive for the dist files and if it | doesn't find it on the CD currently loaded it checks the Internet. Why not copy all the tarballs in /usr/ports/distfiles and let the normal port Makefiles find them in the usual place? --giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message