Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:05:59 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 4 CD ISOs for 5.2 ? Message-ID: <40205387.2040906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200402040252.18639.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> References: <016f01c3ea33$182e1210$1b01a8c0@itg.ti.com> <20040203213646.GB9261@xor.obsecurity.org> <40201EA3.2040106@freebsd.org> <200402040252.18639.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org>
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Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 23:20, Scott Long wrote: > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: >>> >>>>On Tuesday 03 February 2004 13:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>> >>>>>Only the first 2 CDs are made available on the FTP site. The other >>>>>two contain a subset of packages; the full set of packages is >>>>>available on the FTP site, just not in ISO format. >>>> >>>>Regarding the first cd: >>>>make release >>>>only creates a 'mini-install', not the 600M iso that is on the site. This >>>>one misses perl for one and some dependencies fail. >>> >>>AFAIK packages are included by hand. >> >>Correct. We've talked about enhancing the scripts so that this gets >>included automatically, but it can be problematic since the source >>location of the packages might be unknown at the time of the build. > > > Do you mean the distfiles here, or the resulting packages? > If talking about the packages, isn't it as simple as moving the > $CHROOT_DIR/usr/ports/packages into $CHROOT_DIR/R/cdrom and using a similar > approach as portupgrade? Otherwise an ls */*/*.tbz should print a workable > list. > > If the distfiles, then one can advise in the release manpage, to do: > /usr/src/release/scripts/print-cdrom-packages.sh 1 | xargs portinstall > --fetch-only > > and then proceed with RELEASEDISTFILES argument. > The only problem with this is that it's quite common during the RC and BETA phases for the package set to not yet be available through normal means. > Life would be a lot simpler if portupgrade was moved into base :) > Yeah, but that would require putting Ruby into the base, and you'd have an all-out revolt on your hands if that happened. Scott
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