Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:49:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "W. J. Williams" <will@willardjwilliams.com> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD PowerPak Message-ID: <20030719034904.26374.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Rob, I can download the Ports collection and burn to DVD or CD-R. Would you be willing to pay for this? Will --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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 > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== Will Williams
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