From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 1: 4:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4058A37BA4D for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:53910 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:04:42 +0200 Received: (qmail 1765 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Apr 2000 08:04:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:04:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <20000418100433.A1739@student.csd.uu.se> References: <200004180308.NAA15105@lightning.itga.com.au> <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:16:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:16:29PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Just a heads-up: The 4.0 CDs from WC don't seem to contain distfiles any mor > e > > - the last two disks contain only packages (i.e. pre-compiled binaries). > > That's because the number of packages got so large as to basically > kick the distfiles off. We really need DVD to become more popular > in end-user machines and for the replication companies to be able to > cope with it. :) > Thanks for the warning. Now I won't bother to get the 4.0 CDs since one of my major reasons for getting them was to get a (reasonable) up-to-date set of distfiles. (Downloading large distfiles over a 33.6K modem is not fun.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message