From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 06:35:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B5837B401 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-152.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009B943F93 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D8766D16; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 129E9943; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:35:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Storey Message-ID: <20030720133511.GA69788@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030720210907.4e67f24d.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030720210907.4e67f24d.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD PowerPak X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:35:16 -0000 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:09:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I posted a message a few days ago regarding my frustrations to obtain an > up-to-date PowerPak for FreeBSD 5.1. Because I don't have broadband, I > really would like to have the entire ports collection on CD-R. > Unfortunately, the PowerPak sold by FreeBSDmall is version 4.6, a full > year (and four versions) out of date. >=20 > Since I posted that message, one kind member of this list contacted me > and offered to attempt to create a homemade PowerPak by downloading the > distfiles and burning them to CD-R. >=20 > So, (forgive the pun) the burning question: >=20 > Exactly what directory from Freebsd servers should one download to > create a PowerPak? "A PowerPak" doesn't really mean anything. The question is what do you want. =20 > Perhaps the distfile directory? The gentlemen who > volunteered to do this isn't exactly sure, and I'm pretty clueless. I > assume there are no ready-made ISO files for producing a PowerPak, so > what would be the best procedure? The distfiles directory contains most of the distfiles that have been associated to every version of the ports collection going back several years. It's unlikely you want all that. Unfortunately there's no easy way to only obtain only the distfiles for the current ports collection (unless your volunteer wants to fetch them all himself, about 12-15GB worth). Instead you might like to just grab the full package set, which runs to about 7.2GB on i386 for the latest 4.x set. Kris --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/GpqJWry0BWjoQKURApzbAKCnWO0YmYNzSZP0ra8xfmA19JvJyQCg+TCF HMlrT75cwwQ6G0RAb+HBTFU= =e5xu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--