On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: > Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) > ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to > the > system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece > of > software. Very nice with the advantages that comes with this type of > installation, but, what about a big applications like Gnome, > OpenOffice and > so on. I can't try ports because I can't have a fast/long connection > for > downloads (due to some restrictions on my country) so I always install > via > packages, and it takes a while, well a little bit.
You can do "make fetch" to fetch the required package distfiles first, or "make fetch-recursive" to fetch all the required distfiles of all packages required by this package. see "man ports" for other targets. /Bastiaan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
