From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:40:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F3B37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail3.alcanet.com.au [208.178.117.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC1343F75 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:40:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])h38Kebis012110; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:38 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with ESMTP id 2003040906403742:13189 ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:37 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h38Kebai052075; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:37 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.8/8.12.5/Submit) id h38KeZL8052074; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:40:35 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Bill Vermillion Message-ID: <20030408204035.GG310@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Vermillion , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20030408190136.9E7C037B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20030408193344.GC34447@wjv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030408193344.GC34447@wjv.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 09/04/2003 06:40:37 AM,|July 24, 2002) at 09/04/2003 06:40:38 AM, Serialize complete at 09/04/2003 06:40:38 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-Release disk3 and disk4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:40:41 -0000 On 2003-Apr-08 15:33:44 -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: >> The simple explanation is that this is all the FreeBSD project itself >> creates. The ports packages that filled up CD's 2, 3 and 4 are no >> longer part of the "official" FreeBSD -RELEASE image. > >And how much of that will relate to the fact that it now runs >on iNTEL, Alpha, and PC98 architectures. I remember when I had >NeXTStep we had quad-fat disks to support all architectures. >I can see this could cause ports problems as some have binary >pieces in them. Apart from FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE (which had an Alpha install on disk 2), the different architectures have different -RELEASE ISOs. This avoids the problem of trying to build CDs that have binaries for different architectures. Obviously supporting all the different architectures increases the -RELEASE effort and provides more incentive to only have one space constrained ISO instead of 4. (There's no real space constraint on the live filesystem disk). Peter