Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:29:58 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing FreeBSD-4.0 Distfiles on CDROM Message-ID: <20000530172958.B4107@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200005302044.e4UKih005571@mail-ob.kamp.net>; from farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:44:43PM %2B0200 References: <200005302044.e4UKih005571@mail-ob.kamp.net>
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:44:43PM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > I've just bought a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (March 2000) CD-ROM Set > and was _very_ disappointed, as I couldn't find any distfiles > (sources), that go with /usr/ports! ---end quoted text--- This was a point much talked about when 4.0-R first came out. My off-and-on reading of the threads confirms your suspicion: no distfiles are on the CDs. I think the deal is that there's not enough space on the CDs to add all the distfiles. And, I think, many prefer packages, so ou get packages instead. But if you've already got 3.4, what's the big deal? Just run cvsup for the ports. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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