How download installed packages' sourcesfiles

[John Mitchell]

This one time, at band camp, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> O. Hartmann wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > 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.
> 
> Try using "make fetch-recursive" from a port's directory to fetch the 
> source tarballs for that port and it's dependencies.  Note that you can 
> also create packages from the installed ports and copy those over to 
> another machine, and install them directly rather than recompiling 
> everything.
> 
> [ Start with a "mkdir /usr/ports/packages", and the ports system will 
> create package tarballs automaticly under there... ]

Actually a "make checksum-recursive" might be better if he is goint to
burn the distfiles to a DVD, that way if there is a partial distfile
already make will notice it and resume downloading it.
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