Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:56:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909031154510.3733-100000@nobby.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990903103323.B45808@relay.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > I believe the original gentleman's suggestion for this burning of a "changed > > distfiles CD" was geared towards 1 person within an active FreeBSD user's > > group > > Then why can't someone within the users's group > > cd /usr/ports && make fetch > > and burn a CDROM?? Not everything related to FreeBSD needs to come > straight from Walnut Creek. Many people have better net access than WC's > office. Making and offering said CDROM sounds like an exclent user's > group activity, esp., since a UG's charter is to foster help w/in the > group. > > BTW, it now takes 3 full CDROM's to hold all the distfiles. That sounds like a great idea. I did not know that I could do a ``make fetch''. I'm assuming that this just downloads all of the necessary files into /usr/ports/distfiles but doesn't actually do the build. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ "As Jun [Murai] explains it, `I can go to the bar and drink beer. I go to a phone and ping my routers, and if they are still working, I go back and drink more beer.'" Carl Malamud _Exploring_the_Internet_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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