Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:10:03 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are Included Packages shrinking Message-ID: <3F0F51DB.4080406@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net> References: <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net>
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Joseph Lewis wrote: > Is there a reason that none of the release people want to include any of the > default dist files? I work on a few machines online all the time, and also > one or two offline. But that just means that I have to take a chance of > missing a prerequisite when I download a port file. Why not just include the > common ones on the CD like used to be done? (Such as Apache, DHCPD, etc) You might try burning /usr/ports/distfiles to a CD, possibly with /usr/ports/packages. A more interesting question would be to figure out how to identify and cache ~600 MB worth of distfiles and keep that up-to-date over time.... -- -Chuck
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