From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 26 16:57:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tricord.system.pl (tricord.system.pl [195.205.185.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E988C37BA73; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from saper@tricord.system.pl) Received: (from saper@localhost) by tricord.system.pl (SYSTEM Internet) id BAA25575; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:57:30 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:57:30 +0200 From: Marcin Cieslak To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <20000427015730.B25261@tricord.system.pl> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.org References: <200004182028.QAA36438@blackhelicopters.org> <7630.956090286@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <7630.956090286@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 01:38:06PM -0700 Organization: SYSTEM Internet Provider - http://www.system.pl/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) napisał(a): > I could certainly make a super-set INDEX file with some sort of CD# > field (I'd have to extend or munge the current INDEX format) available > on each of the CDs, sure. That's a good idea. There is a nice way to handle this in IBM's AIX ... it has already 3 CD of a base system (all system is split into "packages"). The install utility, installp (much better than all rpm's) takes care of informing the user which CD to insert. The funny thing is, that installp accepts "/dev/cd0" - path to CD-ROM device - as a "source" path... i.e. the user does not have to mount the CD to get the packages - installp (un)mounts it in his favourite mount point on an as-needed basis. (I guess one would even add an interface to support changers, why not). In my opinion, we should work on pkg_add to support such a feature (a "-C device" option)... and of course bsd.port.mk could be updated to handle this. But there is always a tradeoff between end-user convenience (Please insert CD #blahblah) and the UNIX traditional mechanisms, like setting just ${DISTDIR}. Perhaps we end up in adding ${CDROMDIR} and some simple CD changing handler. One thing I would like personally to avoid is a Solaris-like vold (volume manager) thing. This is the first process which gets killed on my machines. -- << Marcin Cieslak // saper@system.pl >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEM Internet Provider http://www.system.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message