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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!demos!news1.relcom.ru!EU.net!howland.erols.net!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PORTS install Date: 26 Aug 1996 03:17:28 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 53 Message-ID: <4vr508$ebm@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <321C8D97.66F@alaska.net> <4vpjao$31g@klemm.gtn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andreas Klemm (andreas@klemm.gtn.com) wrote: : In article <321C8D97.66F@alaska.net>, : hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> writes: : > ok, after beating myself to death trying to figure out how to install : > PORTS manually, i would like to present some assistance to anyone : > else that may need to go about a PORTS install without CD's or : > FTPing. : Nice from you, but I don't understand the way you do it ... [major snip] : No just the opposite, it causes grief, because you do completely : unnecessary steps ! I hope, that everybody is able to use the ports : collection better than you ;) I think there's a place for explaining how to use the ports collection for someone whose machine isn't connected (yet, anyway) to the Internet, as making a slip or ppp connection implies having an ISP and getting ppp or whatever configured. My problem is not only that "hmmm's" explanations seem overly complicated but also that I'm disinclined to take seriously any advice from someone who's concealing his (her?) name--"hmmm" sometimes signs as c kerr, which I do not find reassuring. Anyway, if I had to do a port (a single port) and had to do the downloads to another machine, I'd do the following: --Get the port from ftp.cdrom.com using (if I wanted kermit, say) get kermit.tar.gz, which would get the whole kermit port directory. --Get kermit.tar.gz renamed and onto FreeBSD in, maybe, /usr/local; gunzip and tar xvf it (after renaming it to kermit.tar.gz after the dos filename truncation. --Read Makefile in the kermit directory to find the location of the distfile (Columbia University in this case). --Go back to the dos machine or whatever's connected to the Internet and ftp the distfile. --Put the distfile into /usr/ports/distfiles and rename it to its original name. --Go to the kermit directory with the Makefile and type make install. Done, I think. One reason to get kermit is that you can use it to transfer files without a ppp or slip connection, so you don't have to figure out the hassle of getting the file from the dos machine to the FreeBSD box by floppy. Annelise