From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 13:14:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA05253 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:14:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA05237 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:14:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA21894; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:14:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: picnic.mat.net: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:14:03 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Francisco Reyes cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom? In-Reply-To: <199711302019.MAA05400@super.zippo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I was wondering how is the selection made of what goes into the > CDrom? > Is the CVS repository used by most users or just a few? > > Personally I find that it would have been more useful to have the > sources for all the programs somewhere (ie a second live file system > CD) in an untar format. Alternatively a list of where the sources are > in the first CD and a small script to get a program out would be just > as good. For example recently I wanted to look at the source code for > "renice". Getting the entire usr.bin took too much space. > You know that the source for renice (and all the other parts of FreeBSD) are inside that CVS archive? cvs is really complicated to learn, but pretty well worth it. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------