From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 16:41:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4FA16A407 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc3-cmbg1-0-0-cust506.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.21.101.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C952A43D73 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.63 #0) id 1GNXnu-000OYV-5e by authid for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:41:38 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:41:38 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060913164137.GA89945@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> <186816020.20060912160233@gmail.com> <200609122139.00187.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <10609122105.AA22770@pluto.rain.com> <4507352C.5030906@gmail.com> <10609130030.AA23373@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10609130030.AA23373@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: danielby@slightlystrange.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on catflap.slightlystrange.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:41:52 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree=20 > > > does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from = =20 > > > CD. > > > > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't > > complete, as in: not all the ports are there. >=20 > Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the > collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided > on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space > and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent=20 > their inclusion.) Because since the release CD was cut, the porters have been tirelessly porting new software and updating existing software - the ports tree is pretty much in a constant state of growth and development. As soon as=20 the release is cut, the included ports tree is out of date. --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFCDTBixf5fBYiFmoRAo2KAJwKLpLIYsKvVORyRYp7kDbIWItr+QCglLNp Bd5yQrU73XllSrQV1FcYtHY= =HC/j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--