From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 8:59:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF3937BCBE for <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11054; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:43:10 BST." <200004182143.WAA00514@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:01:15 -0700 Message-ID: <11051.956160075@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Who knows? Every time I've sent an ISO image to the replicators, they come back with comments that their mastering software seems to barf and they're awaiting fixes from the manufacturer. - Jordan > > > Just a heads-up: The 4.0 CDs from WC don't seem to contain distfiles any mor > > e > > > - the last two disks contain only packages (i.e. pre-compiled binaries). > > > > That's because the number of packages got so large as to basically > > kick the distfiles off. We really need DVD to become more popular > > in end-user machines and for the replication companies to be able to > > cope with it. :) > > So when is a DVD distribution likely to be plausible ? ;-) > > > - Jordan > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message