Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:05:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Peter Ryan <pryan@singnet.com.sg> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection Message-ID: <20040804065940.W87561@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <1091589404.4110551c8311a@arrowana.singnet.com.sg> References: <1091589404.4110551c8311a@arrowana.singnet.com.sg>
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Peter Ryan wrote: > I am very new, and have been reinstalling > FreeBSD many times to clean up whatever > mess i make and start again. > > I recently used cvsup to update my > ports collection for the 4.10_RELEASE. > > Now, when I reinstall, it takes much longer > because i bring in the updated ports collection > rather than the ports collection on the > install CD (which i burnt from an ISO file) > The whole portscollection is also available via ftp: on ftp2.de.freebsd.org: ftp> pwd 257 "/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports" is current directory. ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,76,11,100,141,111) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 25760 drwxr-xr-x 2 emoenke ftp 4096 Aug 3 01:53 . drwxr-xr-x 11 emoenke ftp 4096 Jul 29 2003 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 1006 Jun 19 01:49 README.TXT -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 26332175 Aug 3 01:26 ports.tar.gz 226 Transfer complete. simply download the tar.gz, and extract it to /usr/ports On each ISO of a release, like the 4.10R-CD #1, they take a snapshot of the ports tree when the make the assumption that it ist quite consistent. So when you download in say, 3 months a 4.10 ISO, the ports tree therein will be more than 3 months old. In that case, use whether cvsup or method above to get a recent ports tree. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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