From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 02:57:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA06276 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 02:57:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA06271 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 02:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA12069 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:56:35 +0100 Message-Id: <199602201056.LAA12069@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: I'd vote to put the CVS repository onto the next FreeBSD CD-Rom To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 11:52:06 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <199602192300.AAA00342@knobel.gun.de>; from "Andreas Klemm" at Feb 20, 96 12:00 am X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > What would you think about putting the FreeBSD CVS repository onto > the next FreeBSD CD-Rom ?! I'd like to see this. I agree in principle. But the question is, how many people would really want to have the repository? Would it justify an additional CD? After all, you still need to keep it up to date. > A good reason to start selling FreeBSD as 3 CD package ;-) I'd like to see the install CD-ROM go away, and the installation be tuned to the Live File System CD-ROM. I can't see any good reason to have the CD in the same format as the downloadable modules. > It would have the additional advantage, that there would be enough > room for the whole FreeBSD ports collection. Currently some sources > and binary packages are missing. It's my understanding that the sources are missing for copyright reasons. Some authors of otherwise free software stipulate that the sources should not be distributed on CD-ROM. Somewhere (handbook?) there's some detail documentation on this. > It would also be a good starting point to setup ctm or sup ... Sure. > I think that many other people would be interested in this, too. > You get the chance to read developer comments and such ... I don't know how much use the developer comments would be. What I would like to see would be a reasonably complete archive of the hackers mail list. That could also stall a few FAQs. Greg