From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 20:49:14 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 9B20337B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13503.mail.yahoo.com (web13503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BF1E43FAF for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@willardjwilliams.com) Message-ID: <20030719034904.26374.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.226.204.251] by web13503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:49:04 PDT Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:49:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "W. J. Williams" To: Robert Storey In-Reply-To: <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 03:49:14 -0000 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 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