Building gnome and saving the sources....help please!

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gman88

I am fairly new to FreeBSD and elected to use it for a mail server due to some help I found, specifically for FreeBSD, on the net. And, FreeBSD is great, by the way - not saying that to get some help....lol. I've learned a lot, but,I know that this is an extraordinarily basic question. I like to have a Desktop (gnome) because I am learning (at 58!) and have very limited physical space in a small office in my home. As I work on this mail server and some scripts I am writing, periodically, I simply bugger things and really need to start over. I am doing something like "cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2" and then doing "make install clean" to build gnome (similarly for xorg) - and the whole thing takes hours. It's odd because I notice that in /usr/ports/distfiles the sources for mysql, perl, mail server packages, etc. are saved. Is there a way I could save the gnome sources. I could just move them to a local box and get them via ftp - as a big tarball. Man - I need some sort of system because at this rate I'll be 100 - or dead - before I finish this thing.....

Thanks for helping the elderly....
 
Not certain of the difference..

Well - you know I'm new to this and I confess that I have not read the handbook. if you mean doing somthing like "pkg_add -r gnome2" is that faster....? Or does it save sources..? Sorry for the idiotic questions.
 
If I don't include the "clean" portion of the command would it leave the sources in the distfiles directory? Also, I understand that these packages change - at the moment, that is not an issue given what I'm doing.
 
My mistake..

I need a week of. I am building the Desktop with the following:

pkg_add -r xorg
pkg_add -r gnome2
 
You haven't described what you are doing that's making it necessary to reinstall ports.

Possibly a basic misunderstanding. Checking the Handbook saves time overall.
 
All the source files needed to build a port end up in /usr/ports/distfiles. This includes all the Gnome sources.
 
gman88 said:
If I don't include the "clean" portion of the command would it leave the sources in the distfiles directory?
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A "make clean" only cleans the work (/usr/ports/*/*/work) directory
 
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