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Old 12th March 2012
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Ok I checked FAQ15 out.

Got the "ports" tree installed by doing this according to the guide:

{I used /home as there was more space in it then /tmp where the tar.gz wouldn't fit}

Code:
cd /home
tar -C /usr -xzf ports.tar.gz

# chgrp -R wsrc /usr/ports
# find /usr/ports -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \;

echo "USE_SYSTRACE=Yes" > /etc/mk.conf

$ cd /usr/ports
$ make search key=rsnapshot

So now it should work like how I'm used to!


However, a quick question is - if I want to install a package not in the ports tree can I still build it as though it was a port?

eg. download the source into /usr/ports dir then run "make install clean" after going to /usr/ports/<source>
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