Download the whole ports tree

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:12:39PM -0800, James Long wrote:
> > Message: 20
> > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:01:37 -0500
> > From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> > Subject: Re: Download the whole ports tree
> > To: Simon Maginnity <smaginnity at ccw.vic.edu.au>
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <20051216070137.GA55600 at xor.obsecurity.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Well,
> 
> portupgrade -FRaN
> 
> sounded promising, but upon further reflection, I suspect that would
> fetch only distfiles for those ports which are already installed, plus
> any new dependencies that are not yet installed.
> 
> Perhaps we need a meta-port which includes _everything_ as a build
> dependency.  Then you just fetch that.

Well, if you really think you want this, then just:

cd /usr/ports
make fetch

Kris
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