How download installed packages' sourcesfiles
O. Hartmann
ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Fri Mar 25 06:25:36 PST 2005
Hello.
I run into the follwoing problem.
Using an internet connected at my lab makes me happy installing each
package I need from source.
At home I have only a very slow moem connection, but I need also the
same packages (not precompiled,
the sources) there.
One idea was to "fetch" every source tarball of every installed
port-package as reported in /var/db/pkg,
burn /usr/ports/distfiles in conjunction with a up to date
/usr/Ports-tree on one or two DVDs and
the copy this at home on the disk (capacity is not an issue).
Unforunately "portupdate" does not have a simple functionality to gather
all tarballs from each installed
port and its friends it depends on.
Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help.
Thanks,
Oliver
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