Download all source before compiling the port

Torsten Zuehlsdorff mailinglists at toco-domains.de
Thu Jun 9 07:46:44 UTC 2016


On 09.06.2016 01:19, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:15:04PM -0300, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to download everything required by a port before starting to
>> build it and its dependencies (so I can let it to build later without an
>> internet connection). Thanks in advance.
>> ....
>
> I have been using (and still use) "portmaster" to update
> locally-inistalled ports on a couple machines (one of which is my
> laptop).
>
> Quite some time ago, I started running "portmaster -aF" specificially
> for this purpose (while rebuilding base FreeBSD), prior to a subsequent
> "portmaster -ad" (after the reboot).
>
> Caveat: portmaster is ... rather deprecated of late.  See ports@
> archives for further discussion on that topic.  (in fact, Ii'll redirect
> this to ports@, as it's a ports issue.)

It is not deprecated. There was a long time without any maintainer, but 
i took the maintainership some time ago.

Greetings,
Torsten


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