On 29/04/2013 19:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm a longtime Debian user who is trying out FreeBSD, so very much a > newbie here. > > I wanted to get spectrwm-2.2.0 which I found on www.freshports.org. > After a lot of googling I tried first cvsup and then svn, using the > command > > svn co svn://svn.freshports.org/x11-wm/spectrwm > > but it keeps timing out wo I think I must have misunderstood something. > Any advice please? Is there some other way to get ports from > freshports.org?
Freshports just shows information about the status and history of various ports. It is not itself a package repository or a source code mirror. If you want to check out just one port like that (which won't actually be a lot of use on it's own -- usually it's best to download the whole ports tree) then read these sections of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn-mirrors.html and your command would be something like: svn co https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/x11-wm/spectrwm \ /usr/ports/x11-wm/spectrwm us-east is generally the best choice of SVN mirror for people in Europe at the moment. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk
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