Question about ports

Tim Aslat tim at spyderweb.com.au
Wed Apr 23 20:47:32 PDT 2003


In the immortal words of Dragoncrest <dragoncrest at voyager.net>...

> 	I remember someone saying how to do this, but I've since 
> forgotten.  What's the command to pull down all of the source files
> for each and every single port in /usr/ports that is needed to install
> any of the ports?  AKA all of the files that should end up being
> stored in /usr/ports/distfiles
> 
> 	I've searched, but I guess I'm not using the right keywords to
> 	find 
> this.  What I need to do is install ports on a box with zero network 
> connection to the internet.  Any help is welcome.  Thanks.

Try 
cd /usr/ports
make fetch

Cheers

Tim

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