Ports to cdrom

[Olivier]

Hi there!


>>   Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection -
>>   probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM?
>>   My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is
>>   installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need
>>   to save as ISO image?  File format issues?   Indexing issues?
>>   Thanks,  Graham/
>>  
>
> Where would /ports/distfiles go? And what about ~/work subdirs?
> They must be writable.  You need hard disk to do this.
>
> You can use a refuse file to trim the size of /usr/ports, but you
> can't use the ports tools to do auto upgrading unless you have
> the whole tree (can't find the doc ATM, a thread on questions@
> recently addressed this.)
>
> If you're unable to add HDD space, why not use packages?
>
What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS?

Olivier