From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 11:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1C737B41A for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020330193228.TGZR1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@max> for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:32:28 +0000 Message-ID: <200203301432390920.14F404A4@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <15526.2436.700201.685239@guru.mired.org> 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> <15526.2436.700201.685239@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:32:39 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >> Actually, 10 of them come from my "BSD Power Pak 4.4" package that I >> 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, Well, by "installation disks" I mean the "normal 4 disk set" that FreeBSD comes on. And there is a packages directory on 3 of them, with no list of which package comes on which CD. And then you add in the 6 disk Toolkit set. I don't see why it is so hard to understand that, whoever makes these CDs should give an inventory of what packages came on them. Otherwise, I have to mount each one, search the packages folder, unmount it, and mount the next one, every time I want to see if I already have the package locally. And what exactly do you mean by "only elimin[at]es 2 files"? Do you mean that there are only 2 other disks that it could be on? So what? Who needs the extra work. >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. A simple FILES.TXT on either the first or second disk, even if it just does something like: Disk 1: [contents of disk 1's packages/INDEX, in a readable form] Disk 3: [contents of disk 3's packages/INDEX, in a readable form] Disk 4: [contents of disk 4's packages/INDEX, in a readable form] Simple. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message