Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:43:15 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <jpeg@thilelli.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports. Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAECPFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <38474.145.248.192.30.1106905141.squirrel@145.248.192.30>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Julien Gabel > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:39 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports. > > > >> Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES > >> on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, > >> ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete > >> install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release > >> the CDROMS in the first place. > > > Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in > ports.tar.gz for at > > least RELEASES. > > Included or not, the release is self contained (and don't require an > internet in that case) since the INDEX or INDEX-5 file can always be > generated from the local ports tree, via : > # cd /usr/ports; make index > So can many of the utilities - like perl and X - that are now supplied as binaries. I guess you want to go back to the 386BSD days when you had to build all those things yourself. I think you deserve to have your FreeBSD taken away for a month and be forced to run Solaris 2.5.1. That will teach you to smart off about being able to generate things. How would you like a Sendmail upgrade to take 2 hours, eh? Or let's see even better - how about bootstrapping a usable version of gcc on a SunOS box? Been there, done that. We don't want to go back to those days. There's a reason that precompiled and pregenerated stuff is included in the UNIX distributions. Neither Disk 1's require KDE or GNOME to be generated from the sources, either. Ted
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