The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

[Donald J. O'Neill]

Perry Hutchison wrote:
>> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree    
>> in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.
>  
> with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an
> up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a
> not-updated base install from CD.  OP might be better off
> loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the
> rest of the system.
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That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't 
complete, as in: not all the ports are there. I stopped installing the 
ports tree from the install CD a long time ago for that reason.

Don