ports database

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 20:07:37 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, gahn <ipfreak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> Is it possible to update the database of ports offline.
>
> It is nice to use "portsnap fetch/extract/update", but I can't use that
> since one of my server has no connection to the internet...
>

If you have another machine available, it probably makes more sense to build
the packages there and bring them over.   A ports tree with no internet
connection is not always useful.  It doesn't contain the source necessary to
build the packages.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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