From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 11 15:40:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84FC37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D1B43E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.54]) by fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.06 201-253-122-126-106-20020509) with ESMTP id <20021111234015.EJMB4292.fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com> for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:40:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:40:15 -0500 From: Mike Jeays User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: PKG-ADD suggestion Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.54] using ID at Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:40:15 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It would be useful if pkg_add had an option that made it store a copy of the tarball on the local machine whenever it had to fetch it with FTP. Perhaps it could be triggered by defining an environment variable that would specify the directory where the tarball was to be placed; if the environment variable were not defined, the tarball would not be saved. One could then periodically burn a CD containing tarballs for packages that had been installed via FTP, and save future downloading resources. As a second comment, I find that many useful (to me) packages no longer appear on the 4-CD set. "Expect" and ImageMagick" are two that come to mind. I understand that there are now far more packages than can fit on 4 CDs, and wonder what is the rationale and process for deciding which packages are placed on the CD set, and which are omitted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message