RE: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Vondung
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

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
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,

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
--- 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

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
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

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
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.

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
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

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Pat Lashley
--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

Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
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