On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chris writes: > > > If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there. > > I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use > so rarely.
Is there no machine you can nfs mount a ports tree from? I do it all the time and set the following environment variables in bash: export DISTDIR="$HOME/ports/distfiles" export PACKAGES="$HOME/ports/packages" export WRKDIRPREFIX="$HOME/ports/work" export PORTS_DBDIR="$HOME/ports" Then I have a shared and up-to-date ports tree for all my machines. If I just want to install packages then I use: portupgrade -R -PP www/firefox You should also be able to browse the ftp site by hand or check out freshports.org and get the package that way too, but it doesn't handle dependencies as nicely. Also, if your trying to install the linux version, then make sure linux-XFree86-libs is installed as well as some version of linux_base. > > What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run > sysinstall? Seems to me that it would guarantee that the ports are > always up to date. > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
