Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:32:39 -0500 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports 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>
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>> 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:
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