Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:17:32 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, orders@cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing distfiles on FreeBSD-4.0 RELEASE CD-ROMs Message-ID: <393510EC.11E99B0A@i-clue.de> References: <10162.959761245@localhost>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Hello Jordan, > > > > is there a way to persuade Walnut-Creek (a.k.a. BSDI) to include the > > distfiles on their next regular FreeBSD-4.X CDs? AFAIK, they were > > It's not a question of persuading Walnut CreeK AKA BSDi, it's > a question of persuading me. I make the CDs. :-) And you are doing a especially good job. Thanks again. > And the reason I have dropped the distfiles is that there's simply not > enough room ... [snip] I'm only doing what the > majority of our customers have requested. > > If you want distfiles, those are part of the 4.0 FreeBSD Toolkit CD > set which is 6 CDs in size and contains almost every distfile you can > imagine. It's an increasing challenge to fit an expanding system (and > ports collection) on 4 CDs and the creation of another 6 CD set was > very necessary. On the other hand, how about a more timely release of distfiles-only CD-ROMs? The source repositories can hop over to snapshot CDs, I personally use CVSup to get the source. As I previously said, grabbing ports is no fun using a modem, especially if you like to play around a little.... Just my $0.05 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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