Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:25:50 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> To: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles Message-ID: <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. I run into the follwoing problem. Using an internet connected at my lab makes me happy installing each package I need from source. At home I have only a very slow moem connection, but I need also the same packages (not precompiled, the sources) there. One idea was to "fetch" every source tarball of every installed port-package as reported in /var/db/pkg, burn /usr/ports/distfiles in conjunction with a up to date /usr/Ports-tree on one or two DVDs and the copy this at home on the disk (capacity is not an issue). Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to gather all tarballs from each installed port and its friends it depends on. Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help. Thanks, Oliver
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