Re: How to install ports from CD-ROM

Hexren wrote:

>>Hi.every one.
>>When I was installing Freebsd 5.3, I found it downloaded ports from
>>the internet although I select CD-ROM as my install media.How to stop
>>that? Since I did not use a high-speed internet connect, it cost me a
>>lot of time.
>>BTW: Could someone tell me how to change the site from which FreeBSD
>>ports to download the source cod.
>>    
>>
>On the other hand you can simply put port files (for example
>"samba-3.0.7.tar.gz" for samba3) into /usr/ports/distfiles.
>The ports install proces alway looks there first if the file he needs
>is already there and if it is uses it.
>
>Regards
>Hexren
>  
>

Concur.  Move the tarballs (foo.gz, bar.bz2, whatever) to
/usr/ports/distfiles and then try "make install clean" in the
port's "skeleton directory".

Kevin Kinsey
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