From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 24 17:35:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22619 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22612 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25009; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:34:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199901250134.SAA25009@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: end of 2.2-stable support and the future of ports In-Reply-To: from Richard Wackerbarth at "Jan 24, 99 06:06:26 am" To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:34:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I don't believe that ANYONE can LEGALLY sell a CD set such as you > describe. > > Although the ports can reference distfiles, the authors of a number > of the packages do not allow their work to be copied and redistributed. Ok, so if I don't imagine selling the CD, but have a CD burner (or a tape drive, or a big hard disk, or...) and I want to create a 2.2.8 ports backstop, how much storage would I need? > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: >> It's the distfiles that are the issue here. If I "cvsup"ed the >> /usr/ports tree, and then did a "make fetch" from the /usr/sup >> directory, would that do the right thing? How much disk space would it >> take? Would that give me something suitable for CD-ROM burning? >> >> What we're trying for here is the definitive final 2.2 CD-ROM set, such >> that any package that exists as a port will =guarenteed= build, >> avoiding bit-rot for those of us that use FreeBSD in a production >> environment. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message