Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:23:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-packages seem to be out of date. Message-ID: <199710281523.PAA01145@jaffacake.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <2536.877968607@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 27, 97 08:10:07 am"
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> > I didn't know you are putting up packages on snap CDs. Please don't > > pull CDs off the ftp site without asking me first. There are lots of > > "don't sell for profit" kind of stuff up there, haven't I told you so > > many times? > > The syncronization between myself and the ports/packages team has > gotten harder with each progressive release and I've complained to > you before about the difficulties and confusion in syncronization. > > For the next release, it's going to be one of the 3 following choices > for me: > > 1. I take over the building of packages myself so that I have more control > over when/where/how the packages are built. > > 2. This system of building packages is automated in a similar fashion > to the current.freebsd.org server so that some FTP site can simply > be mirrored by anyone wishing to build a CD (and as I'm not the only > person building CDs, this would probably be the most general solution). > > 3. We stop distributing packages and distfiles on CD, doing just the > ports collection and letting folks use the net to grab packages > or distfiles. Not everyone can do that though - it's a LOT easier installing xemacs from a CD than over a modem... (it probably takes a while to compile on a slow machine as well, although that isn't so much of a problem.) > > The current system is no longer workable, I'm no longer willing to do > things "the old way" - it's going to be one of these 3 options for 3.0 > / 2.2.6. > > Jordan >
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