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Old 17th March 2011
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1... put this in /usr/local/etc/.portmasterrc
Code:
PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
2... Then you can run
Code:
portmaster -d -B -P /var/db/pkg/[some port] /var/db/pkg/[some port]
and packages will be used if available. Be sure to change the file if/when
you update to v9...
Incidentally you may want to change the python version to python27 first
as it is the default. (For instance, a firefox package (today) would fail
to install, requiring python27 rather than python26.) I've an easy method but
it would take many paragraphs to explain fully... if one is not used to it.
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