Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:04:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <20000418100433.A1739@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:16:29PM -0700 References: <200004180308.NAA15105@lightning.itga.com.au> <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com>
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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
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