Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:13:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <200004191313.PAA25919@matrix.42.org> In-Reply-To: <200004180308.NAA15105@lightning.itga.com.au>
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In article <200004180308.NAA15105@lightning.itga.com.au> you write: > Just a heads-up: The 4.0 CDs from WC don't seem to contain distfiles any more > - the last two disks contain only packages (i.e. pre-compiled binaries). > > Not that I am complaining, but I did find it very useful to have the distfiles > to save long FTPs when we wanted to install stuff on Solaris! That's bad. I was aware that the CVS tree was kicked off (and i can live with that, as long as the release-source keeps beeing included.) But loosing the distfiles is just plain bad. This saved me so much download time. I hope they will be back on one of the next releases. CU, Sec -- Whatever the virtues of balance, it's just a pleasant form of insanity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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