On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree > > > does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from > > > CD. > > > > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't > > complete, as in: not all the ports are there. > > Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the > collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided > on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space > and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent > their inclusion.)
Because since the release CD was cut, the porters have been tirelessly porting new software and updating existing software - the ports tree is pretty much in a constant state of growth and development. As soon as the release is cut, the included ports tree is out of date. -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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