6.0-REL && isos of distfiles

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Sat Dec 31 14:58:49 PST 2005


On Friday 30 December 2005 13:54, Greg Barniskis wrote:

> distribution ISOs as packages. Again, if you simply must have
> sources not packages, then at your high speed location, do something
> like:
>
> portupgrade -F '*'
>
> Then burn your own ISOs any which way you like. Try to be more
> specific about what you want than '*' or you may be sorry due to the
> sheer volume -- do you really want all of the sources for nearly
> 14,000 ports?

"*" is a package glob that applies only to the entries in the package 
database, so you wont get the source 14,000 ports, unless you've already 
installed them all. 


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