Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:05:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preparing for FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <200907081705.19993.erich@apsara.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <1247042948.1996.15.camel@slate01> References: <1247042948.1996.15.camel@slate01>
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Hi, On 08 July 2009 pm 16:49:08 Gary Dunn wrote: > > The last time I tried this with a 7.x release I had a problem > getting Gnome to install without pulling its source code from > the network, and soon after the release the ports tree was > updated with a newer version of Gnome. At that point there > seemed to be no (easy for me) way to offer a single disk this will happen over and over again. You only will be able to have a release version CD or DVD. It is your decision if you want to keep a system in the release state or in the current state. > learn how to update the ports tree -- to get under the hood and > get a little dirty. I would rather that be an option, and that > what comes with a release will serve them well until the next > release. > Knowing BSD since years, I leave very often a system for six and more months in its current state. > Even if there is a way to install from DVD, when will 2.28 hit > the ports tree? When it does, is there a practical way to > distribute it on disk? I guess that a compromise would be to do > a full install, then copy the tarballs to a DVD and have the > newcomer copy those to their distfiles directory before running > the meta Port. It is always possible to build your own packages on one machine, pack them onto a DVD and distribute it. You even can do this via network. As I understand FreeBSD, it is against the concept of it to do what you want to do. Erich
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