A question about dwnloading Ports

Dmitry Mityugov dmitry.mityugov at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 12:43:19 GMT 2005


On 6/17/05, 子耗 <fatcat1985 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a new user to Freebsd. I do not have a high speed connection, so
> I could not install softwares from ports directly. It takes me a lot
> of time. I wonder how to download the whole ports, so that I could
> download it in Net Cafe, and save it to my moible harddisk and then, I
> could install softwares after I get home. It is of no use to download
> the ports trees only. I need to download all the source codes the
> first time, and I could use cvs system to update it.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> P.S.: I am not a native English user, and my Englishi is not good
> either. You could ask me for further information if I did not describe
> the question accurately.

There are distributions that include prebuilt ports, like this:
http://www.bsdmall.com/fr54po.html. If you live in Russia, there is a
nice distribution from linuxcenter.ru on 2 DVDs.

-- 
Dmitry

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"


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