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
but the skeleton that can connect to the internet and
fetch the source files that you can compile. What I
was asking for is the facility to have all the sources
of all the ports on the CD. (SO you needn't connect to
the internet to build your machine).
The full set of distfiles takes up 15GB
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
packages on
their CDs (so does FreeBSD).
Well, remember that the ports collection is nothing
but the skeleton that can connect to the internet and
fetch the source files that you can compile. What I
was asking for is the facility to have all the sources
of all the ports on the CD. (SO you
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.
I think the FreeBSD distribution would be better off
having all ports on the 2 additional CDs rather than
have
--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
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
