From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 14 02:10:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA06020 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (wck-ca9-21.ix.netcom.com [204.31.231.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA06001; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.7/8.6.9) id CAA06359; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk CC: committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, ports-jp@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:50:14 +0100) Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: * > Ok...so it seems like the release is going out on 20th. The ports * > freeze will be at 17:00PDT (10:00GMT) on Wednesday October 15th. * ^^^^^^^^ * Hmm, not sure I follow your arithmetic here :-) Ouch. That should be 24:00GMT (or 0:00GMT of October 16th) of course. Sorry. * I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be * worth mentioning anyway. What do people think to putting the size of * the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port? This would be * very helpful for people with poor Internet connectivity. Quite a few * times I've thought about installing a port, but wasn't sure how long * a download I was letting myself in for. Currently, the only way this * can be done is by looking on the master site. Hmm. That is an interesting idea. Satoshi