From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 17 07:09:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA25963 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:09:10 -0700 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA25947 ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:09:03 -0700 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0t5ChR-0003vmC; Tue, 17 Oct 95 07:09 PDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA03345; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:09:02 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pending crisis in packages/All/... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 06:59:33 MST." <13671.813938373@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:09:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3343.813938942@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > mksiofs can't hack it. > > mkisofs breaks badly on a directory containing as many symlinks as the > packages/All directory does, and last time I was not able to get > packages/All on the CDROM because of it. To not be able to do > auto-package adding off a CDROM would be a bad thing, yet I don't see Turn it around then: Put the packages in packages/All and the symlinks in packages/networking &c ??? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)