From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 17:10:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 6372837B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA1A43F93 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030712001011.FGAQ13328.out002.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:10:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3F0F51DB.4080406@mac.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:10:03 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net> In-Reply-To: <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:10:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Why are Included Packages shrinking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:10:13 -0000 Joseph Lewis wrote: > Is there a reason that none of the release people want to include any of the > default dist files? I work on a few machines online all the time, and also > one or two offline. But that just means that I have to take a chance of > missing a prerequisite when I download a port file. Why not just include the > common ones on the CD like used to be done? (Such as Apache, DHCPD, etc) You might try burning /usr/ports/distfiles to a CD, possibly with /usr/ports/packages. A more interesting question would be to figure out how to identify and cache ~600 MB worth of distfiles and keep that up-to-date over time.... -- -Chuck