Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:21:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <20000419182141.A33170@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004191701400.53195-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:09:01PM -0500 References: <11089.956160392@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004191701400.53195-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:09:01PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > That would not be a simple solution. There are more packaging > > problems with this than you've probably ever dealt with since we deal > > with CD sets in terms of tens-of-thousands quantities. > > > > I will continue to explore going to a 6 CD set, but that also means > > more work for me on every release so I'm in no particular hurry. :) > > How about using 80-minute/700MB discs? It would only let you squeeze > in another 50MB/disc, but that would mean an extra 200MB for the 4-CD > set. Apparently this is what Microsoft and many others have been > doing for a while now. > This may be a wee bit obvious, but how about compressing everything on all 4 CD's--except perhaps the *.TXT files or recompressing everything with bzip2? Seems to me that there's a more reasonable solution than going to 5 or 6 disks... gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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