From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 00:02:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA16719 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:02:58 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA16713 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:02:46 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA20127; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:56:31 +1000 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:56:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199504250656.QAA20127@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: phk@ref.tfs.com, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Building off a CDROM Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Is it likely that there will be space on the next CD for an unpacked version >> of the system sources? I'm contemplating my ever-decreasing disk space and >> thinking that something like the union filesytem and sources mounted off a CD >> would be a good thing, particularly if patches would end up just replacing the >> visible copy from the CD. >We have always had the sources unpacked on the CD. Aren't we planning to fix this in 2.1? :-) Add enough ports and there will no longer be room. (I like bloat in ports but not in src.) >UNIONFS is broken :-( but you can make a linkfarm... Fixing unionfs would be a good project. Bruce