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Vastly simplify section 4.3.1 now that the ports collection has gotten

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smarter (long ago) about CDROMs.
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<!-- $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.30 1998-04-28 04:53:27 mph Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.31 1998-10-04 01:14:38 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<chapt><heading>Installing Applications: The Ports collection<label id="ports"></heading>
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<sect1><heading>Compiling ports from CDROM<label id="ports:cd"></heading>
<p>
If you answered yes to the question ``Do you want to link the ports
collection to your CDROM'' during the FreeBSD installation, the initial
setting up will already have been done for you.
<p>
If not, make sure the <em /FreeBSD/ CDROM is in the drive and mounted on,
say, /cdrom. Then do
Assuming that your <em /FreeBSD/ CDROM is in the drive and mounted on
/cdrom (and the mount point *must* be /cdrom), you should then be able
to build ports just as you normally do and the port collection's built
in search path should find the tarballs in file:/cdrom/ports/distfiles/
(if they exist there) rather than downloading them over the net.
<verb>
# mkdir /usr/ports
# cd /usr/ports
# ln -s /cdrom/ports/distfiles distfiles
</verb>
to enable the ports make mechanism to find the tarballs (it expects to
find them in /usr/ports/distfiles, which is why we sym-linked the
CDROM's tarball directory to that directory).
<p>
Now, suppose you want to install the gnats program from the databases
directory. Here is how to do it:-
<verb>
# cd /usr/ports
# mkdir databases
# cp -R /cdrom/ports/databases/gnats databases
# cd databases/gnats
# make install
</verb>
Or if you are a serious database user and you want to compare all the
ones available in the Ports collection, do
<verb>
# cd /usr/ports
# cp -R /cdrom/ports/databases .
# cd databases
# make install
</verb>
(yes, that really is a dot on its own after the cp command and not a
mistake. It is Unix-ese for ``the current directory'')
<p>
and the ports make mechanism will automatically compile and install
all the ports in the databases directory for you!
<p>
If you do not like this method, here is a completely different way of
doing it:-
<p>
Create a "link tree" to it using the <tt>lndir(1)</tt> command that
comes with the <em>XFree86</em> distribution. Find a location with
some free space, create a directory there and then cd to it. Then
invoke the <tt>lndir(1)</tt> command with the full pathname of the ``ports''
directory on the CDROM as the first argument and . (the current directory)
as the second. This might be, for example, something like:
<verb>
lndir /cdrom/ports .
</verb>
<p>Then you can build ports directly off the CDROM by building them in the
link tree you have created.
<p>
Note that there are some ports for which we cannot provide the original
source in the CDROM due to licensing limitations. In that case,
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# Date created: 13 November 1997
# Whom: jraynard
#
# $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.30 1998-04-28 04:53:27 mph Exp $
# $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.31 1998-10-04 01:14:38 jkh Exp $
#
DISTNAME= ElectricFence-2.0.5