fetch info

[Gary Jennejohn]

John Merryweather Cooper writes:
> gareth wrote:
> > hey guys, i'm struggling to find out how to do this, for example from
> > the help page:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
> > # make
> >   
> >>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/.
> >>>       
> > ===>  Extracting for lsof-4.57
> >
> >
> > how do i figure out before typing make what that url is? (the filename
> > part seems to be under 'distinfo'). for instance i'd like to download
> > all the necessary tarballs before running 'portupgrade' to make the
> > actual upgrade quicker.
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> >
> >   
> Run
> 
> make fetch
> 
> in the directory of each of the ports you want to prefetch.  
>

Or simply ``make fetch-recursive''.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde