From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 3 10:56:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spork.cs.unm.edu (mail.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6D614BD3 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colinj@cs.unm.edu) Received: from nobby.cs.unm.edu ([198.59.151.103] ident=mail) by spork.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 11MxZB-000489-00; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:56:01 -0600 Received: from colinj by nobby.cs.unm.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11MxZA-00018W-00; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:56:00 -0600 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:56:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Colin Eric Johnson To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-Reply-To: <19990903103323.B45808@relay.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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