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Old 27th June 2008
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Originally Posted by s0xxx View Post
Or just use binary instead of source packages and there is no need for full pkgsrc if space is a deal.

FreeBSD has a tool called misc/porteasy, I don't know if other have similar tools for installing ports (source packages that is) without actually getting the ports tree?
Well I think that the binary package is definitely the way to go since If he
does not have space to install ports structure he definitely has no space to install compilers, building tools, and to compile the thing. People usually forget that the building process produces lots of junk which they clean at the end. For instance when I build 10-20 ports at once on OpenBSD the junk might be a couple of GB. So it is a BIG deal. If there is no package for particular port he should build it on another machine and use it as repo. That can be done on all four BSDs.

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