Updating package from www.freshports.org
I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a newbie here. I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the command svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something. Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from freshports.org? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org
On 4/29/2013 14:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a newbie here. I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the command svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something. Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from freshports.org? AC Please read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating package from www.freshports.org
On 29/04/2013 19:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a newbie here. I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the command svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something. Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from freshports.org? Freshports just shows information about the status and history of various ports. It is not itself a package repository or a source code mirror. If you want to check out just one port like that (which won't actually be a lot of use on it's own -- usually it's best to download the whole ports tree) then read these sections of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn-mirrors.html and your command would be something like: svn co https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/x11-wm/spectrwm \ /usr/ports/x11-wm/spectrwm us-east is generally the best choice of SVN mirror for people in Europe at the moment. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
