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Old 27th March 2012
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post
is this manageable for another machine connected to my server with no need to connect elsewhere ?
It is not uncommon for users to manage their own package repositories, but recognize that this duplicates a lot of work the project has already done.
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or is it a necessary to fetch missing ports that can't be saved ?
I don't know what you are trying to say here.
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is *every needed piece of software* saved in distfiles once compilation comes to an end ?
No, the contents of /usr/ports/distfiles is as I described earlier. This is the directory where source is downloaded.

The actual building of ports is done in /usr/ports/pobj. This is where you will find the intermediate object files + other ilk used to build the application's binaries, manpages, configuration files, etc.

Once a package has been built, the contents of /usr/ports/pobj can be deleted, but it is far simpler to just leave /usr/ports/pobj alone especially if you want to later study the source code for any particular application.

I suspect one of your concerns is that building ports take a lot of diskspace. This is true. It is even more true if you build lots of ports -- to the order of gigabytes of diskspace.
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