Howto install ports collection?

[Alin-Adrian Anton]

Nagy László Zsolt wrote:

>
>  Hi gurus!
>
> I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the 
> other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
> It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is 
> entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
> no idea how to install the ports collection using only an ssh shell. 
> Please give me a direction.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>    Laci 1.0
>
>
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The easiest way (if you have root access) is to use the CVSUP system. It 
is well described in the handbook, and the handbook is available online 
on www.freebsd.org . If you do not have the cvsup util already 
installed, you need to find it and compile it yourself, after you fetch 
it from the web. Or better, get a .tgz version which is a precompiled 
package. Search for the source of it on www.freebsd.org/ports/

A very simple CVSUP config file to get the ports collection looks like this:

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*default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
#tag=. means FreeBSD-CURRENT
*default tag=.

#src-all
ports-all
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Then just load 'cvsup file.sup', will do it.

Check the man pages of all the mentioned tools before.

Alin.

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