Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:03:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD images Message-ID: <20041109190354.GC28207@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4190F9BC.4030104@fer.hr> References: <41909BFE.8080608@fer.hr> <20041109164839.GA2273@isis.wad.cz> <4190F9BC.4030104@fer.hr>
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--oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:09:16PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > ># ivoras@fer.hr / 2004-11-09 11:29:18 +0100: >=20 > >>there are only CD1 and CD2 images. Shouldn't there exist CD3 and CD4 as= =20 > >>well (with packages)? > > > > > > The sets have been reduced quite a while ago. >=20 > Is it forever or just temporary? They were nice for setting up machines= =20 > without broadband net access. More or less forever. They were a major drain on mirror resources as well as release engineering team resources as the package sets needed to be adjusted each time. They also covered less then half the available packages so they were only useful if you where lucky enough to find your desired packages on the CDs. We certaintly wouldn't object to someone else maintaining infrastructure to build ISOs like these since they are useful, they just weren't worth the effort from the relase engineer's perspective. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBkRSaXY6L6fI4GtQRAlxSAJsElPxGPjMB3/taqtWoc6aY/ES9/gCfaw/k VNUJcXFMrnnzyS07+oguEt0= =bIBp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7--
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