On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:35, Chris Knipe wrote: > Look at the cvs-mirror port... > > > Regards, > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:15 PM > Subject: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? > > > I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of > > machines behind a > > very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is > > very slow). > > > > What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software > > to create > > a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for > > the ports tree. > > > > Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles > > on this local mirror?
The cvs-mirror port won't download the distfiles for all of the ports. Depending on how 'slow' your link is that could be a very daunting task. The MASTER_SITES environment variable is probably what you want. man ports for the details. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
