Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:15:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr> To: Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indexing CDs Message-ID: <20010530111512.A3735@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10105291351360.79464-100000@acs5.bu.edu>; from mgllghr@bu.edu on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0400 References: <20010529170959.A54426@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.A41.4.10.10105291351360.79464-100000@acs5.bu.edu>
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0400, Gallagher wrote:
| Giorgos,
| Isn't /usr/ports/distfiles a sym-link to the cdrom drive? I
| thought I read that on the list somewhere, but I could be wrong. (At
| work, can't check the machine right now)
| Also, copying all the dist files is a good idea, except that it
| takes a lot of space. Having the CDs indexed would prevent having to use
| all that space. But you're right, it does solve the problem.
I installed 4.2-RELEASE from a friend's ISO-image a few weeks ago.
I have been installing lots and lots of packages since then, and I didn't
erase a single thing from /usr/ports/distfiles. Right now, the distfiles/
directory is close to 450 Mb, and that is a lot of space to have occupied by
tarballs.
But hey, disk space is cheap. I am not that worried about it.
# cd /usr/ports/CATEGORY/PACKAGE
# make install clean
is something that I would never exchange for a few Megabytes of space.
Go for it... copy what you need in /usr/ports/distfiles from the cdroms you
have, and live with your ports happily ever-after :)
--giorgos
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