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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:45:38 -0800
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
To:        jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, "" <re@FreeBSD.org>, "" <hubs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RELEASE bits for i386, pc98, sparc64, and alpha are up 
Message-ID:  <200301210445.h0L4jcEK094700@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0301210827230.772-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> 
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If memory serves me right, jason andrade wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:12:08PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I noticed there's only the installation CD plus the fixit CD
> > > for 5.0-RELEASE.  This is a bit unusual for a release ...
> > >
> > > Will there be the usual 4 CD set at some point in the future?
> > > If so, when?
> >
> > Those aren't usually put on the FTP site, are they?
> 
> they sure are.

We (RE) decided that with four-and-a-half architectures, we didn't have
the resources (mainly in terms of person-hours) to do four-disk package
splits.  As you (and many other people have pointed out) the storage
requirements are also considerable.

> though i am actually glad they haven't been at
> this point since the multi arch release really chewed a bunch of
> our disk space up in one hit.

We definitely need to clean up the old versions on ftp-master. There's
considerable discussion of this among the developers, but I'm not sure
who exactly is in charge of this.  (It sure isn't me!)

Cheers,

Bruce.



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