From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 22:31:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9180016A412 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05C8B43D46 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:31:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 76658 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2006 22:31:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.20?) (donaldj@ameritech.net@75.7.74.134 with plain) by smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2006 22:31:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4507352C.5030906@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:31:08 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060912) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> <186816020.20060912160233@gmail.com> <200609122139.00187.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Perry Hutchison Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:31:40 -0000 Perry Hutchison wrote: >> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree >> in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. > > with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an > up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a > not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off > loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the > rest of the system. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Don