Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 13:39:13 +0200 (CEST) From: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle. Message-ID: <200605141139.k4EBdDY4038836@hardy.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060513211306.GG714@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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* Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>: > On Sat, 2006-May-13 21:39:46 +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: >>If bandwidth really is a problem, then it is possible - but not >>necessarily a good idea - to check out individual ports via CVS. > > This is not supported. If you want to build ports from source, > you _must_ have a complete and consistent ports tree. Otherwise > you are on your own. If one wants to checkout only the necessary bits of the ports tree via CVS, des' porteasy script is worth a try (it's found in misc/porteasy).
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