From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 21 01:29:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E280B106568B for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D9F8FC16 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so224677bwz.43 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:29:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Hqw+HDCeDiX5i5JuyKgpG1Sde4iDeI4tPUGJSBNE1l8=; b=inlhwdN+LSEVybFiQLEU/VjC4sXQevy7gkabA+k0vhBn837/izqr23b3vdsnaMgwl0 lGSq85YV9PP+NyI5hK+qFNInnisOv4wdwGyXBZ56r7eejG/snSyXYUf6HXlioGbbxyC1 Tu2Gwfz5VHshWZS277vjbAi7Hw8pKN9w901xM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=pwBf3HuEtdA4h4pqeOvPh/wrKKtjv/OyeY6qJRNVT/hqhoiKg+0L92ltxJIa/aaW6b vPVHKMazVny0gwlVVsl/TTEzeAjy+ZzgJa0PhhrPtl3I2pHomKLonNy6bI7Ps9ndY0Yi S8KvvPTYqSQPZ/xpTPpjR5FFX/7Iq/dDMvK6w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.168.200 with SMTP id l8mr52522hbe.83.1250818166901; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:26 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: installation sequence 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: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:29 -0000 Lane Holcombe wrote: >Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > >portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > >You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will >have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the >whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be >ready when you need it. It's good advice to make sure that you are using a base system and ports tree that are up-to-date, or at least contemporaneous and from a stable snapshot. But it seems to me to be overkill to ask someone who is having trouble installing ports to mirror the FreeBSD repository. Snapshots downloaded per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook ought to be enough for most people. b.