Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:31:08 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs Message-ID: <4507352C.5030906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com> References: <d85a51ff0609120304kf4bb0bdy8fba0ed4c7f174e6@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> <186816020.20060912160233@gmail.com> <200609122139.00187.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com>
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Perry Hutchison wrote: >> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree >> in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. > > with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an > up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a > not-updated base install from CD. OP might be better off > loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the > rest of the system. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason. Don
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