Sounds like a business opportunity. Make and sell
CD sets with the 'missing' ports. Every couple of
months, a new snapshot of the entire ports tree with
all of the legally-CD-able distfiles; for people who
don't have the (cheap) bandwidth to stay up to date
with cvsup...
I believe
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
Guys,
Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set?
This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian
offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that
contains all packages.
http://www.freebsdservices.com/ It's on DVD,
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On
Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti
Keshav wrote:
Guys,
Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD
set?
This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian
offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that
contains all
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:04:59PM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
What are you really asking here? First you ask for
ports (but the
ports collection is on CD1), then you say debian
includes packages on
their CDs (so does FreeBSD).
Well, remember that the ports collection is nothing
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On
Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti
Keshav wrote:
Guys,
Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD
set?
This is one area where Linux fares better.
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:23 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On
Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti
Keshav wrote:
Guys,
Is it possible to get all of the ports
--On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 00:59:30 +0100 Tadimeti Keshav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set?
This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian
offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that
contains all packages.
The short answer is No.
Some of
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
Guys,
Is it possible to get all of the ports on a CD set?
This is one area where Linux fares better. Debian
offers a 7 CD (OK they don'y make ISOs) set that
contains all packages.
What are you really asking here? First you