:> For pkgsrc, why couldn't we just include a recent snapshot of /usr/pkgsrc :> on the CD (much like how FreeBSD provides a snapshot of /usr/ports). The :> tree that I updated last night is 387MB uncompressed, 195MB compressed. : :I agree with this - not including pkgsrc shrinks the size of the download, :but it's still 80-something meg, and you end up using the bandwidth anyway :pulling pkgsrc down through anoncvs, which also requires a bunch of extra :steps which are only documented in a few places.
Not on the CD. The CD is intended to be fairly lean and there's the simple fact that a pkgsrc snapshot, like ports, rapidly becomes dated. Nor do I consider it particularly useful when a package build needs to fetch additional stuff from the internet anyhow. What would be useful would be to create a /usr/pkgsrc/Makefile with some simple targets to acquire and maintain a pkgsrc tree so people don't have to go poking around figuring out how to get it. I will put something like that in place for this release since it will take another day or two to test Simon's base package updates. After this release I would also like to see a bit of a cleanup of the nrelease build, such as creating separate targets that just build make variables like WITH_INSTALLER instead of rollup targets (e.g. 'make installer release' instead of 'make installer_release'), which would allow us to do something like 'make installer dvd release' or 'make installer dvd quickrel' without having to create a multiplication of make targets. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>