On 2022-01-13, Rob Whitlock <rwhitloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > As another issue, extracting ports.tar.gz as a non-privileged user in /usr, > as described in the document whose address is given above, results in > failure due to lack of permission, as a normal user does not have access to > create the /usr/ports directory.
I recommend you use cvs to fetch the ports tree. ports.tar.gz does not quite contain all the files because some have names which are too long for the format used by tar(1).
