Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:37:08 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How download installed packages' sourcesfiles Message-ID: <42442214.1040008@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <42441F6E.9010506@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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O. Hartmann wrote: [ ... ] > 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. Try using "make fetch-recursive" from a port's directory to fetch the source tarballs for that port and it's dependencies. Note that you can also create packages from the installed ports and copy those over to another machine, and install them directly rather than recompiling everything. [ Start with a "mkdir /usr/ports/packages", and the ports system will create package tarballs automaticly under there... ] -- -Chuck
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