FreeBSD Question / About PORTS Specifically...

[Superwormy]

Aight, story is I have a FreeBSD computer, but its a local development server, running Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL ( not yet, soon... )


It needs a good format and install of FreeBSD 5.0 ( or whatever latest stable build is... ) BUT I don't have an internet connection. At all.

Is there an easy way to download all of the PORTS I'll need on another computer, and all the Makefiles and such, and just drop them into the appropriate directories on the other computer ( burn them to CD and copy them over... )

I guess the ideal solution would be the entire PORTS collection on CD or something, or in one big and easy to download place... So I could just copy onto my computer and not need an Internet connection...

Note that I need the .tar or .gz or whatever files too, NOT JUST THE MAKEFILES!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Sounds like a job for precompiled packages. Either that, or go grab the distfiles for every package you need (and every one that you may need as a dependancy).

 

[Superwormy]

precompiled packages...?

 

[Superwormy]

Should I just download all the files I think I might need from:

ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

???

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

That would probably do it, you still gotta compile them though, and deal with the ports tree. With precompiled packages ("ports"), you can just download whatever packages you need and pkg_add *.tgz.

 

[n0cmonkey]

You want packages, not ports.

 

[Superwormy]

Where to I get packages for FreeBSD... sorry kinda a newbie still...

 

[stspad]

packages are on their ftp site.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Superwormy
Where to I get packages for FreeBSD... sorry kinda a newbie still...

Try: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable
Modify as needed for your version.

 

[Superwormy]

Hey the manual says that the ports are in .tgz format... but all the packages in release-5.0/ are .tbz...

Are those the correct ones to get?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Yes.

 

[Superwormy]

hehe, one more question... it seems the FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE is missing some files... Apache isn't in the WWW directory or anything... but FreeBSD 5.0 CURRENT has all teh files I need...

Can I just take the missing files from FreeBSD Current?

 

[Superwormy]

anyone...?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Superwormy
anyone...?

If there is a -stable directory, upgrade to stable and use that. -current might work, but it might not. Just my guess anyhow since *I* don't have a FreeBSD machine to test on *hint hint*.

 

[Superwormy]

ROFL thanks n0cmonkey, I take teh hint

 

[Mucman]

Sorry, I sort of skimmed the thread...

If what you want is every distfile for all the ports, then I believe you can simply do the following :

$ cvsup -g -L 2 supfile
$ cd /usr/ports && make fetch

If I am way off base, then I apologize for skipping what I probably should have read before posting