Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:52:52 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017946373.465b3a@mired.org> To: jdarnold@buddydog.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Message-ID: <15526.2436.700201.685239@guru.mired.org> 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>
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In <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com>, Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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