The easiest way (if you have root access) is to use the CVSUP system. It is well described in the handbook, and the handbook is available online on www.freebsd.org . If you do not have the cvsup util already installed, you need to find it and compile it yourself, after you fetch it from the web. Or better, get a .tgz version which is a precompiled package. Search for the source of it on www.freebsd.org/ports/
Hi gurus!
I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
no idea how to install the ports collection using only an ssh shell. Please give me a direction.
Thanks in advance,
Laci 1.0
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A very simple CVSUP config file to get the ports collection looks like this:
------------------------------------------------ *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress #tag=. means FreeBSD-CURRENT *default tag=.
#src-all ports-all ------------------------------------------------ Then just load 'cvsup file.sup', will do it.
Check the man pages of all the mentioned tools before.
Alin.
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