From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 20:34:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E4E37B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2U4XfB09051; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roo) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:33:41 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Message-ID: <20020329203341.D7895@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020329181926.B75496-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200203291859590787.10C2685F@mail.attbi.com> <15525.9046.907958.653284@guru.mired.org> <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com>; from jdarnold@buddydog.org on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:29:36PM -0500 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jonathan Arnold (jdarnold@buddydog.org) [020329 20:29]: > >> >To find out which packages are available on the CDROM(s), just mount the cd > >> >drive and cd /-cdrom-mountpoint-/usr/src/...etc > >> Yeah, but I have 14 CDROMS, with 6000+ packages. I think it is lame that > >> they didn't include some kind of master index with them. > >You have 14 CDROMs from three different distribution packages. How > >could they have included a master list for you without knowing which > > Actually, 10 of them come from my "BSD Power Pak 4.4" package that I bought - > the 4 installation disks and 6 toolkit disks. I think at the very least, > the installation disks should have their own master index, and the toolkit > disks should too. > > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org > > A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of > rules and no mercy. --Joseph Campbell So I assume we'll be seeing a contribution from you with master lists and software to keep them up to date soon? -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message