From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 14:21:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92A6158E0 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16820; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Morten Seeberg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Downloading BSD Packages In-Reply-To: <005d01be8c10$daf4e340$16b4010a@msb.int.danadata.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Hi, when downloading BSD, I´ve always wondered: > > If I decide to download some packages, should I just > download the INDEX file and the all directory, and then Im home free > Or does it use the links? > What Im really asking for here is, how do I download the packages > most easily, and how should I put them on a CD? Well, the packages are just tarballs, so use ftp, I guess :) The categorizations don't matter too much, but if you want to take advantage of sysinstall's package browser you'll have to organize it like the ftp site. > If I download a set of packages from the snapshot today, will > there be any significient changes to the packages, in a snapshot > in say a month? Wount the packages stay the same basicly? The versions will probably be updated, but the existing packages won't change. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message