Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:53:41 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports. Message-ID: <63792.192.168.1.18.1106999621.squirrel@192.168.1.18> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAECPFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <38474.145.248.192.30.1106905141.squirrel@145.248.192.30> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAECPFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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>>> Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES >>> on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, >>> ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete >>> install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release >>> the CDROMS in the first place. >> Included or not, the release is self contained (and don't require an >> internet in that case) since the INDEX or INDEX-5 file can always be >> generated from the local ports tree, via : >> # cd /usr/ports; make index > So can many of the utilities - like perl and X - that are now > supplied as binaries. Not self-contained on the disk1. I said 'make index', not 'make fetchindex'. The case of packages themselves are another thing, i think. I tend to think that this file was forgotten during the release's process (but i don't know), i just want to point the fact that it can be self-generated without a network connection. Nothing more. > I guess you want to go back to the 386BSD days when you had > to build all those things yourself. I think you deserve to have > your FreeBSD taken away for a month and be forced to run Solaris > 2.5.1. That will teach you to smart off about being able to generate > things. How would you like a Sendmail upgrade to take 2 > hours, eh? Or let's see even better - how about bootstrapping > a usable version of gcc on a SunOS box? Been there, done that. > We don't want to go back to those days. There's a reason that > precompiled and pregenerated stuff is included in the UNIX > distributions. > > Neither Disk 1's require KDE or GNOME to be generated from the > sources, either. Nothing wrong here, however that was not my point in this post. -- -jpeg.
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