Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:47:05 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <200004191647.JAA04464@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200004191255.e3JCtr001227@cwsys.cwsent.com> from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group at "Apr 19, 0 05:55:28 am"
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As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <4604.956046165@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> That's what the FreeBSD toolkit CD will provide. We hope to have it >> updated for 4.0 very shortly. > > The September edition of the ToolKit had 1.5 CD's of packages and > 1.5 CD's of distfiles. This will now leave us with 2 CD's of > packages and 1 CD of distfiles. Since we already have packages > and no distfiles on the -RELEASE CD's, shouldn't the toolkit have > distfiles and no packages? Or could the -STABLE or Express Demo > be replaced by packages instead? I suggested some months back, but let me try again... I'd pay for a separate CD package that contained =all= the distfiles, by themselves. I know some distfiles can't be put on a CD due to restrictions by the authors. For those, there should be a script that runs fetch to complete the collection. I can burn my own CD for that residual. My desire is driven due to the bit rot that sets in to any snapshot of the ports collection. Inevitably after a release, some authors update their own site's version of a package and things stop building. I'd like to be able to freeze the complete ports collection and everything it needs to coincide with a release. If that collection were part of the toolkit, I suppose I could live with that. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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