From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 20:29:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA9E37B404 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020330042932.EQTI2928.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@max> for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 04:29:32 +0000 Message-ID: <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <15525.9046.907958.653284@guru.mired.org> References: <20020329181926.B75496-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200203291859590787.10C2685F@mail.attbi.com> <15525.9046.907958.653284@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:29:36 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> >To find out which packages are available on the CDROM(s), just mount= the cd >> >drive and cd /-cdrom-mountpoint-/usr/src/...etc >> Yeah, but I have 14 CDROMS, with 6000+ packages. I think it is lame that >> they didn't include some kind of master index with them. >You have 14 CDROMs from three different distribution packages. How >could they have included a master list for you without knowing which Actually, 10 of them come from my "BSD Power Pak 4.4" package that I bought= - the 4 installation disks and 6 toolkit disks. I think at the very least, the installation disks should have their own master index, and the toolkit disks should too. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. --Joseph Campbell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message