From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 18:31:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7B037BD84 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13234; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id SAA33235; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:21:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chris Dillon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brian Somers , Brad Knowles , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <20000419182141.A33170@tao.thought.org> References: <11089.956160392@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:09:01PM -0500 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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