fetch info

[Karol Kwiatkowski]

On 09/11/2006 15:15, gareth wrote:
> hey guys, i'm struggling to find out how to do this, for example from
> the help page:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
> # make
>>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/.
> ===>  Extracting for lsof-4.57
> 
> 
> how do i figure out before typing make what that url is? (the filename
> part seems to be under 'distinfo'). for instance i'd like to download
> all the necessary tarballs before running 'portupgrade' to make the
> actual upgrade quicker.

Have a look at 'man 7 ports', especially fetch, fetch-recursive,
fetch-list and fetch-recursive-list targets.

As for portupgrade, it has a -F (--fetch-only) option to do just that.

HTH

Karol

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Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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