From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 5 05:01:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25868 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 05:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mb06.swip.net (mb06.swip.net [193.12.122.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25861 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 05:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martin@filex.se) Received: from filex.se (dialup43-4-30.swipnet.se [130.244.43.222]) by mb06.swip.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08884 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:01:00 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3618B4E1.8F75C3A3@filex.se> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:00:33 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ports distfiles on CD's Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> There's probably not much that can be done about the prereqs issue. >> But surely it's possible to keep all the files for a single port >> on the same CD. > > That was indeed done for 2.2.7 and will continue to be done. > > - - Jordan While we're talking abuot this subject, wold it be possible to have all common packages on one CD. Total package size (as of 2.2.7) is 787MB. Put the nationalised packages (there are 258MB of them) that don't fit on one of the other CD's. This way it would be a lot easier to find & install the package you want. Some of the people (FreeBSD newbies) who have borrowed my CDs haven't found the majority of packages that are hiding on CD4, just the ones on CD1. Also /stand/sysinstall (2.2.7) doesn't complain if you try to add distribution sets and have the wrong CD mounted, the operation just finishes very fast and doesn't install anything. /Martin -- _____________________________________________________________________ | o | +---------------------------+ +---------------------------+ | o | | | | Martin Nilsson M.Sc. CS&E | | Internet & Intranet | | | | o | | FILEX AB, Lund SWEDEN | | Applications & shopping | | o | | | | email: martin@filex.se | | using NT or UNIX. TCP/IP | | | | o | | Web: http://www.filex.se | | consulting. Programming in| | o | | | | Phone: +46-46-304130 | | C/C++,SQL,Perl & Java. | | | | o | +---------------------------+ +---------------------------+ | o | | | Those who do not understand Unix are condemned | | | o | to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer | o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message