From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 10:53:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DB5E37B4A6 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7434 invoked by uid 100); 30 Mar 2002 18:52:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15526.2436.700201.685239@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:52:52 -0600 To: jdarnold@buddydog.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports In-Reply-To: <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 In <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com>, Jonathan Arnold typed: > >> >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. There aren't 4 installation disks, there's only 1. The other 3 are a fixit disk and 2 disks of packages. So a master index for that distribution only elimines 2 files. Hardly worth the effort, especially considering that you've got to design a new file format, as the INDEX files don't include information about which disk the file is on. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message