[solved] no /usr/ports directory

[Aryan Ameri]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:50, Imobach González Sosa wrote:
> On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:38, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > New to FreeBSD and this is my first message to a BSD mailing list.
> > Hope to learn a lot from you guys.
> >
> > I am reading the Handbook and chapter 4 which deals with packages
> > and ports repeatedly refers to the /usr/ports directory. The
> > problem is that I don't have this directory on my system. I am
> > using FreeBSD 5.3 on a x86 machine. A simple google and browing the
> > archives of this list didn't bear much fruit. Have I missed
> > something during the installation?
>
> Ok, it happens because you didn't tell sysinstall to install the
> ports collection. You could:
>
> 1) go into sysinstall and choose "ports" from
> Configure->Distributions. If you got a FreeBSD CD, it install the
> ports from it. This step is optional, but could save you some time.
>
> 2) cvsup -L2 -g -h A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile This second step will
> upgraded your ports collection (or will create it if you didn't
> follow the step 1).
>
> Change A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU for just a mirror.
>
> Good luck!

Thanks. Problem solved.

Cheers

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Aryan Ameri