From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 18:47:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5438537B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-179.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC73343F1E for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DD866B3A; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D96C7FCF; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:47:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:47:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Craig Reyenga Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available Message-ID: <20030115024706.GA20484@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <004101c2bc33$69323fd0$0200000a@sewer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004101c2bc33$69323fd0$0200000a@sewer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:14:11PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: > I haven't actually tried 5.0RC3 yet, so what I'm about to say may be > irrelevant, but here goes: >=20 > One thing I noticed in previous releases is that the choice of packages i= s a > little odd. Many small packages and ones that are not popular seem to make > it on the first CD, while bigger and/or more popular ones are stuck being > fetched+built manually after. This can be a pain on slower computers, > especially with ports such as mozilla and openoffice. I guess what I am > suggesting is that more attention be paid to _which_ ports make in onto CD > #1. Perhaps one way of doing this is to give each port a "pkg-priority" t= hat > the release build scripts scan for. Anyways, that's just my $0.02, might = be > $0.00 in this case. mozilla will probably be included on cd #1, but the openoffice package still does not build automatically (problems with the JDK dependency). Regardless, thousands of packages are included on the other CDs available for purchase, and they're all (6525 on i386) on the FTP site for automatic download with pkg_add -r. Kris --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+JMupWry0BWjoQKURArtrAJ4wg2UWW6BX1CL9j+H7EF0Yhoxl2QCgzJQn USKLEJ/DqrCPSOdcC+TlFDk= =gEt8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message