From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 3 13:11:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A8B14C94 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29242; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Chuck Robey Cc: John Birrell , Doug Rabson , grog@lemis.com, ks@hirvi.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 May 1999 15:29:16 EDT." Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:10:42 -0700 Message-ID: <29238.925762242@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I like the idea ... but I sure wish WC felt it was time to fork off a > ports cd too (I want to be the first subscriber). This is the essential idea behind the new toolkit, though we can't just punt the basic bits off the usual product or people will scream. I expect the standard product to always contain at least a subset of "most popular" packages and the toolkit to evolve into a 6 CD set containing everything else. This first toolkit CD was more of a grab-bag since also came out at a time when releasing snapshots for 2.2, 3.1 and 4.0 branches seemed like a reasonable thing to do. That won't be the case for the next one since 2.2 will be dead even to our most conservative customers by the time 3.5 comes out (that's always a good time to make the switch, as past experience has shown) and the snapshot CDs will be back in business, rendering the 4.0 snapshots inappropriate for the toolkit CD. That just leaves the mainstream (3.x) product's overflow packages and an unpacked CVS repo, something which is useful to developers but too big for the standard product. I'm open to other ideas as well. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message