From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 24 04:06:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25181 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (nomad.dataplex.net [208.2.87.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25173 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from localhost (rkw@localhost) by nomad.dataplex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA00500; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:06:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:06:26 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Wackerbarth To: "Chad R. Larson" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: end of 2.2-stable support and the future of ports In-Reply-To: <199901240920.CAA24004@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't believe that ANYONE can LEGALLY sell a CD set such as you describe. Although the ports can reference distfiles, the authors of a number of the packages do not allow their work to be copied and redistributed. These are the ones that are presently missing from the CD set. Unfortunately, they will "bit-rot". On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > It's the distfiles that is the issue here. If I "cvsup"ed the > /usr/ports tree, and then did a "make fetch" from the /usr/sup > directory, would that do the right thing? How much disk space would it > take? Would that give me something suitable for CD-ROM burning? > > What we'er trying for here is the definitive final 2.2 CD-ROM set, such > that any package that exists as a port will =guarenteed= build, > avoiding bit-rot for those of us that use FreeBSD in a production > environment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message