initialise ports tree (WAS: long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of filename)

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Tue Jul 1 05:27:14 UTC 2014


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On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 10:09:20AM +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
> On 01/07/14 05:58, Polytropon wrote:
> >On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:39:09 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>	One totally OT thing.  my sysadmin is or will be on his honeymoon
> >>	but installed FBSD 10.X.  without ports.  do you know what magic
> >>	command I use to install the entire ports tree?
> >
> >You can either use the installation media or pull it from FTP:
> 
> Why not use portsnap? It's just so easy.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> 
> # portsnap fetch extract

	+8 hours zulu; you must be/may be somewhere in OZ>   yes?, no?<
	dontcare [ :_) ]

	I've been messing around with stuff the past several hours.
	mostly fmessing wirh my ubuntu 14.10.  I would blaaather on
	but my shoulder is giving me hell.

	"portsnap"; indeed.  I was betting that it wouldnt be there 
	but yeah, zeus loves me.  at this moment, a truckload of the
	/usr/ports/ files are flooding in.  Thanks much!

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