From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 29 03:31:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA03135 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA03129 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA03584; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA00371; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:32:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:32:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Josef Grosch cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! In-Reply-To: <19970928234543.04027@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Josef Grosch wrote: > the stand-alone packages. The fun comes in when we split our package > collection across CDs and we realize that most of our users have _ONE_ > CDROM drive. The "New and Improved" (tm) package system will have to be We could also try using the bzip compressor instead of gzip, but I'm not sure about bzip's export status. It may compress significantly better, though... temp. soln. only, of course. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk