Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:05:23 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> 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 Message-ID: <200004191806.e3JI60d01371@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:47:05 PDT." <200004191647.JAA04464@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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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
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