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Old September 13th, 2004, 02:39 PM
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How can I get the ports?
I'm a newbie and a little bit confused!!! where can I find the ports? Its hand book says to insert the port cd-rom but non of my 4 cdroms(freeBSD 5.3 the is the version I've downloaded) is the right one!!!
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FreeBSD Handbook - Using Ports

doesn't get much more straight-forward than the instructions in the handbook. I'd suggest using sysinstall and installing the ports from an FTP server (installation medium) if you do not have the CD's.

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Old September 14th, 2004, 10:23 AM
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I dont have FTP access. Which CD of the distribution contain's the port collection? another question is: what is the use of the second cd?
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i am not sure with 5.3, but to my recollection with 4.x, everything was on the first cd.
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If you have internet access to this box then do this...

From shell...

pkg_add -rv cvsup-without-gui
then create a file anywhere and named it whatever, for this example we'll name it ports-update

In the ports-update, use any editor to open it up and put this...

*default host=cvsup10.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
ports-all

then save it, close, and do cvsup /path/to/ports-update

That should download/update your port tree/
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so there is no cd distribution for ports like mysql or others? or I should download another cd. I still dont understand the reason for existance of the second CD!!!
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The ports.tar.gz file might be on CD2 IIRC. Nowadays, I just grab ports.tar.gz from /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports and untar it to /usr/ports. Then, I keep it upgraded using cvsup like Joe detailed above.
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There is an option in sysinstall for adding the ports tree. I just add it durring the install and the keep it updated with cvsup. Also the port fastest_cvsup is helpful in finding a fast server.
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If it is the cd rom's that you are looking for, you can try the linuxiso.org website, and get the cd's in iso format. Might be of some help there.

Biz
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