From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 00:39:44 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 9468D16A403 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:39:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473A643D45 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:39:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id k8D0dHof033417 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id k8D0dHtC033410; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA23373; Tue, 12 Sep 06 17:30:43 PDT Date: Tue, 12 Sep 06 17:30:43 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Message-Id: <10609130030.AA23373@pluto.rain.com> 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> In-Reply-To: <4507352C.5030906@gmail.com> Cc: duncan.fbsd@gmail.com Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:39:44 -0000 > > ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree > > does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from > > CD. > > That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't > complete, as in: not all the ports are there. 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 their inclusion.) > I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long > time ago for that reason. Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet connection.