From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 20:15:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484B637B405; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-152.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D13A43F85; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B7B66EA0; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F907C10; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:41:01 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Storey Message-ID: <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: re@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD PowerPak X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:15:50 -0000 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1. >=20 > I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup. > Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as > Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I > don't have broadband and have no hope of getting it where I live, so I > was counting on the 4-CD set to fill in the gaps. xemacs21 is scheduled for disc1 if possible, but I suppose it was bumped because of lack of space. There are some xemacs and mplayer support packages on disc 3 and 4, but xemacs and mplayer themselves are missing. It looks like the CD layout could do with some tweaking. > I noticed on the FreeBSDmall web site that they sell a PowerPak with 10 > CDs. This is supposed to be the entire ports collection. Sounds like > just what I need - except it's based on FBSD 4.6 which is one year old. >=20 > So my question - I am wondering if the distfiles in this PowerPak are > going to be of much use? Shelling out $40 isn't such a great hardship if > the disfiles work as advertised, but I'm going to be more than a little > pissed if it generates nothing but error messages. Does anybody know if > the PowerPak will work with 5.1? Has anyone actually tried it? As you noted, it's based on 4.6, so the contents are a year old. If you don't mind getting year-old versions of ports, then go for it. Kris --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/FpldWry0BWjoQKURAhAKAJoCG/ASRKDuvEGt6WtZ3ZEREcuaEQCcD49d P3ise/pDUi2I1TSYGSAKA7g= =uOCK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--