how to build from ports without downloading ports

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:35:54 -0700
Noah <noah-list at enabled.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have a server with minimal disk space.  is there a way to build
> from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is
> needed for the build and then it is removed?
> 

There's a howto here:

http://codeidol.com/unix/bsd/Keeping-Up-to-Date/Build-a-Port-Without-the-Ports-Tree/


However the ports tree is only  ~0.5GB, so you would have to be very
short of space to go to that much trouble