Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:46:08 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-packages seem to be out of date. Message-ID: <199710290546.VAA24761@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <199710281523.PAA01145@jaffacake.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from Mr M P Searle at "Oct 28, 97 03:23:14 pm"
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According to Mr M P Searle: > > > > 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 What about a comprimise on #3; that any binary/distfile in excess of 5MB be included on the CDROM? Anything less than this can eaily be built by the port. Whenever I find something in ports that I want, I download the portfile and a simple ``make install'' does it all. In a few months the CDROM is passe... . gary > > > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix
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