From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 11:11:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09E437BCFC for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id LAA09287; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:07:05 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda09285; Wed Apr 19 11:06:56 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA05623; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdCN5620; Wed Apr 19 11:06:05 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.1/8.9.1) id e3JI60d01371; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004191806.e3JI60d01371@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdlC1365; Wed Apr 19 11:05:23 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:47:05 PDT." <200004191647.JAA04464@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:05:23 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200004191647.JAA04464@freeway.dcfinc.com>, "Chad R. Larson" writes: > As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <4604.956046165@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > >> That's what the FreeBSD toolkit CD will provide. We hope to have it > >> updated for 4.0 very shortly. > > > > The September edition of the ToolKit had 1.5 CD's of packages and > > 1.5 CD's of distfiles. This will now leave us with 2 CD's of > > packages and 1 CD of distfiles. Since we already have packages > > and no distfiles on the -RELEASE CD's, shouldn't the toolkit have > > distfiles and no packages? Or could the -STABLE or Express Demo > > be replaced by packages instead? > > I suggested some months back, but let me try again... > > I'd pay for a separate CD package that contained =all= the > distfiles, by themselves. I know some distfiles can't be put on a > CD due to restrictions by the authors. For those, there should be a > script that runs fetch to complete the collection. I can burn my > own CD for that residual. > > My desire is driven due to the bit rot that sets in to any snapshot > of the ports collection. Inevitably after a release, some authors > update their own site's version of a package and things stop > building. I'd like to be able to freeze the complete ports > collection and everything it needs to coincide with a release. > > If that collection were part of the toolkit, I suppose I could live > with that. I could live with either a "FreeBSD-distfiles" subscription from BSDI or distfiles and no packages in the ToolKit. Having the distfiles on the CDROM does make life a lot easier. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message