Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:11:30 -0800 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Daniel Mouritsen <daniel.mouritsen@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Some questions from a newcomer Message-ID: <200703101511.31944.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070310224049.7CFCB45053@ptavv.es.net> References: <20070310224049.7CFCB45053@ptavv.es.net>
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On Saturday 10 March 2007 14:40, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I simply install without ports and, as soon as I have the system up and > on the net, run csup to pull in the entire ports tree in clean form. You can also download /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz from a FreeBSD ftp site, and expand that. It's the ports tree, updated every day. Then you can update with c[v]sup later. I don't know if this is faster for a user, but I'd assume it's less load for the cvsup servers. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
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