On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:53:36PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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.
True, but at least it's automated (with the perl based mirror script). > > The MASTER_SITES environment variable is probably what you want. man > ports for the details. > OK, Ill check that out. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"