Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:41:01 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD PowerPak Message-ID: <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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--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--
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