update ports from a file

James oscartheduck at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 06:54:58 PDT 2007


Hi Anderson,

you can update your ports tree by gunzipping and untarring the
ports.tar.gzfile -- I believe it extracts itself to the correct place.
And deleting
everything beforehand would be a smart move, yes. However, this might not be
appropriate for you as you have no internet connection.

Ports simply tells the computer where to find the appropriate source code,
it doesn't *contain* the source code. So if you try make install clean for
anything, it's not going to *find* the source code unless you first download
the tarball and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles.

You may be better off seeing if there're any iso images of prebuilt packages
lying around that you can tell pkg_add to install from. Or trying to fix
your network card.

James


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