Download the whole ports tree

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Dec 15 23:01:38 PST 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:32:33PM +1100, Simon Maginnity wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>                     I have unlimited bandwidth for the next month or so and
> will not have access to the net again for a few month?s after January. What
> I would like to do is grab a copy of the whole freeBSD ports tree while I
> can, so I can just play with different programs and things at will on a test
> server. Really just for my own amusement.
> 
> Is it possible to get a copy of the whole ports tree down if I have enough
> free space etc etc, or just a copy of one branch like www???

The ports tree is not all that large..are you asking about fetching
every port distfile?

Kris
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