How download installed packages' sourcesfiles

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Fri Mar 25 12:49:05 PST 2005


On Friday 25 March 2005 14:25, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 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.

what about

portupgrade -Fa


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