From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 13:17:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C024F14D3D for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA03204; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:02:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA06499; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:21:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909021921.VAA06499@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-Reply-To: <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com> from "mwlucas@exceptionet.com" at "Sep 2, 1999 12:40:25 pm" To: mwlucas@exceptionet.com Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As mwlucas@exceptionet.com wrote ... > But for the last month, my distfiles CD has been completely useless. > Every distfile I've wanted, I've had to download. If the mid-September > date for the release of 3.3 is accurate, that means I have at least > another month, probobly six weeks, until I get an updated CD. > > If FreeBSD is coming out only every four months, might people be > interested in a "distfiles/packages" CD set on the alternate four months? > The work would be minimal, compared to a regular snapshot. I, at least, > would pay for it. Hell, I'd subscribe. I've done the same thing for my personal use. But beware: 1 CD is not big enough to hold all distfiles. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message