Re: Low bandwidth suggestions
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:56:09 -0500 Mauricio L__pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: what would you recommend to someone who wants to have the software available offline and perhaps update it monthly? Can I download and burn in DVDs the entire ports and package collection? I think there is, or was, a unofficial DVD produced by one of the companies that sells open-source disks, I don't know much about it. I'd recommend you forget about upgrading monthly and just stick to releases - the CD's contain a number of useful packages and the snapshot of the ports tree used to build them. Building from ports is going to be awkward, because it requires source tarballs to be under the distfiles directory. They are normally fetched automatically but you'll have to get them manually if you you are offline. Don't try to update the tree between releases. You don't need all that much bandwidth to use the ports system though, I used to maintain a full KDE3 desktop on dial-up. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low bandwidth suggestions
2008/10/27 Mauricio López [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm starting my first steps in FreeBSD, with some experience in Debian GNU/Linux. I also live in Cuba, a third world country with very low bandwidth and I'm very interested in having access to the ported software available for FreeBSD. For now I managed to get the 3 CDs of the 7.0 RELEASE and install it. My question is: what would you recommend to someone who wants to have the software available offline and perhaps update it monthly? Can I download and burn in DVDs the entire ports and package collection? Regards Mauricio López If you have a dail-up connection, you can use the make fetch-recursive command. This will do nothing but fetch the port you desire, with all it's depenedencies. You can then disconnect your internet connection and start building the ports offline. If you use portupgrade, you can specify the -F flag. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Low bandwidth suggestions
I'm starting my first steps in FreeBSD, with some experience in Debian GNU/Linux. I also live in Cuba, a third world country with very low bandwidth and I'm very interested in having access to the ported software available for FreeBSD. For now I managed to get the 3 CDs of the 7.0 RELEASE and install it. My question is: what would you recommend to someone who wants to have the software available offline and perhaps update it monthly? Can I download and burn in DVDs the entire ports and package collection? Regards Mauricio López ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
