Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:32:33 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: mwlucas@exceptionet.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD Message-ID: <199909030532.WAA01361@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:40:25 EDT." <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com>
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In message <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com>, mwlucas@exceptionet.com
writes:
> Hello,
>
> Just an idea I wanted to run by people: I'm not sure if anyone would be
> interested, and it might make the project some dough. (Alternately, I
> might be the only poor bastard in this position, but it can't hurt to
> ask.)
>
> As FreeBSD seems to be doing three releases a year, I find that the
> distfiles and packages on my machine are increasingly out of date. In my
> case, fetching distfiles and packages at work is difficult.
>
> I cvsup at home, and upgrade my ports tree accordingly.
>
> But for the last month, my distfiles CD has been completely useless.
> Every distfile I've wanted, I've had to download. If the mid-September
> date for the release of 3.3 is accurate, that means I have at least
> another month, probobly six weeks, until I get an updated CD.
>
> If FreeBSD is coming out only every four months, might people be
> interested in a "distfiles/packages" CD set on the alternate four months?
> The work would be minimal, compared to a regular snapshot. I, at least,
> would pay for it. Hell, I'd subscribe.
>
> Of course, I'm sure everyone else has a real Internet connection, and
> doesn't have to worry about this.
Take a look at freebsdmall.com. The FreeBSD Toolkit is what you want.
Even better, it also comes as a subscription.
What I do when I receive a CDROM from Walnut Creek is to create a
subdirectories in a directory called /FreeBSD containing directory
trees of symlinks, created using lndir, that point to files on the
CDROMs. Then when I need to build a package, make will fail
complaining about a broken symlink. I then ls -l the distfile in
question to find which CDROM the file is on. (Any distfiles fetched
after a CDROM is released are stored on a Zip disk.)
For example, following are the copies of xlockmore distfiles that I
have pointers to. (Note that xlockmore-4.14 is stored on a Zip disk.)
cwsys$ ll /usr/ports/distfiles/xlockmore-4.1*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44 Jun 27 08:36 /usr/ports/distfiles/xlockmor
e-4.11.tar.gz -> /FreeBSD/2.2.7-cdrom-3/xlockmore-4.11.tar.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 41 Jun 27 08:31 /usr/ports/distfiles/xlockmor
e-4.12.tar.gz -> /FreeBSD/TK-cdrom-5/xlockmore-4.12.tar.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44 Jun 27 08:29 /usr/ports/distfiles/xlockmor
e-4.13.1.tar.gz -> /FreeBSD/3.2-cdrom-4/xlockmore-4.13.1.tar.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 64 Jun 27 08:39 /usr/ports/distfiles/xlockmor
e-4.14.tar.gz -> /opt/archives-6/distfiles-post-3.2.0-extra/xlockmore-4.
14.tar.gz
cwsys$
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Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
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