From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 8 11:05:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42362106568B for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:05:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@apsara.com.sg) Received: from babylon.webvis.net (babylon.webvis.net [202.157.163.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB158FC08 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:05:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@apsara.com.sg) Received: from [10.0.1.240] ([119.73.191.194]) by apsara.com.sg ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:05:30 +0800 SGT From: Erich Dollansky Organization: apsara green technology pte ltd To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:05:18 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1247042948.1996.15.camel@slate01> In-Reply-To: <1247042948.1996.15.camel@slate01> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907081705.19993.erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: Subject: Re: Preparing for FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:05:35 -0000 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