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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:13:41 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        krentel@dreamscape.com (Mark W. Krentel)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.1 disks
Message-ID:  <200007051613.JAA28179@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007050553.BAA02246@dreamscape.com> from "Mark W. Krentel" at "Jul 5, 0 01:53:18 am"

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As I recall, Mark W. Krentel wrote:
> I was really hoping that the distfiles could be included.  For me,
> that's one of the main reasons for getting the disks.  If the sizes
> are getting out of hand, you might consider going to two sets of
> disks.

The last time this discussion went by, I suggested a split of the
CD sets.  I wanted the release set to be the install image, a live
filesystem emergency holographic repair disk, and the repository.

Then, a seperate set of disks, optional to buy or subscribe to but
released at exactly the same time as the system should be the
complete ports collection =with= all the distfiles that are allowed
to be stomped onto a CD, and a shell script that would fetch the
rest.

The idea being to allow someone to snapshot the ports collection at
the time of the release, so that future bit rot (umm... enhancments)
in ports wouldn't affect the owner of the release.  This is not maybe
quite so important for dot releases, but I'd love to have a buildable
ports collection for my 2.2.8-RELEASE systems, and for the 3.5-RELEASE
boxen as well.

My $1/50.  I'd pay.  BSDi/WC?  Want another product?

	-crl
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