In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have access to the net only from Windows 98 and want to take advantage
> > > of all the ported apps, but I dont have the sources on cd. Is there a
> > > way (and where) to download the ported tgz files? I have installed the
> > > Port Collection and just need the right sources.
> > >
> > > Any help on this subject would be very welcome!
> > > Scottman
> >
> > After fetching the source packages manually you must copy them to the
> > /usr/ports/distfiles directory; some ports use specific subdirectories
> > within /usr/ports/distfiles.
> >
>
> And to get the list of files to download do a "make fetch-list" in the
> right directory.
Try "make fetch-recursive-list" to get a list of the files to download
for that port and all of it's dependencies.
I'd also recommend installing from packages whenever possible in that
situation. You can get a list of the packages that a port depends on
with "make package-depends-list".
<mike
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