From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 14:37:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1C637B5A6 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA18566; Wed, 31 May 2000 01:39:55 +0200 Message-ID: <393434B5.4C4D599B@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:37:57 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, orders@cdrom.com Subject: Re: Missing FreeBSD-4.0 Distfiles on CDROM References: <200005302044.e4UKih005571@mail-ob.kamp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Farid Hajji wrote: > Hi, > > I've just bought a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (March 2000) CD-ROM Set > and was _very_ disappointed, as I couldn't find any distfiles > (sources), that go with /usr/ports! In previous releases (3.4-RELEASE > and earlier), most distfiles were present on the CD Set. Are we > now supposed to download package-sources directly off the 'Net? Unfortunately: Yes and No. Due to space restrictions, distfiles dropped off the 4.0-R-CD-ROMs (to make room for a lot more packages). > The 4.0 CDs are not produced by Walnut Creek but by BSD, Inc. Read up on the WC-BSDi-Merger on http://www.daemonnews.org/. > Is this an "official" distribution? The small printed booklet > still points to orders@cdrom.com and the CDs look exactly the > same in design as Walnut-Creek FreeBSD CDs. How can I check, > that these CD-ROMs are trustworthy? MD5-Checksums??? What's > going on here? Nothing special. Two companies merged. FreeBSD stays the same. > Can other FreeBSD-4.0 RELEASE users confirm, that the distfiles are > really missing on the "official" CDs? Yes. Reasons explained in various Readmes, on the CD, too. > Are the distfiles for the 4.0-RELEASE ports available on CD-ROM > at all? (Which CD-ROM and where please?) FreeBSD-Toolkit, still to be produced, AFAIK. > Thank you for your help. You're welcome. Yes, I'm missing the distfiles, too. Modems at home are not helpful for getting distfiles, remote locations don't help, too. Maybe BSDi thinks about another scheme to get the distfiles to the people. Have fun -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message