Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:12:30 +0200 From: Jalle <defacto@home.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fetching sources for ports Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030416170103.00bb9840@pop3.hbg.bonet.se>
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Warning: Newbie Question Coming Up! :o) Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to fetch the sources (tarballs, gzips, bzips etc) for a port, including it's dependencies, without installing the whole thing right away? I could, of course, check http://www.freebsd.org/ports and see what the requirements are, download these, see what the requirements for the requirements are, download there, see what the... (you get it right?) But for a rather large port (like KDE, which I happened to have in mind) this would take ages! So, is there any way to use the fetch command (or any other command for that matter) to download all the stuff before starting the actual build? Any suggestions appreciated, I'm getting tired of Gnome2. I tried e17 and it's reeaally sexy looking, but it's not really cut for everyday use... yet! =o) Cheers! /Jalle
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