From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 27 15:50:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5461503C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA24631; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:49:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:49:25 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Derek Flowers Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Meyer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Splitting package directories [was: release disk sizes?] In-Reply-To: <000201be628a$fcc79620$4ad4fea9@enigma> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Derek Flowers wrote: # I have some scripts I used to create split package directories and indexes # for sysinstall. All that is required is a copy of the packages directory # off the ftp site. The only prerequisite is that the package index is # complete. Do they take care of splitting the packages into M chunks each of potentially different size whilst taking into account the dependencies between packages? The problem becomes a bit more hairy when you are trying to split things onto several CDs that already have bits on them that are imposing space constraints. I realize the subject only speaks to packages but the reason my little scripts needs more stuff is because I'm trying to place the distfiles on the CDs too. The need for the distfiles is obvious and the need for the ports tree is so that I know which distfiles go with which port. The latter is important so that I can try to keep all the distfiles required by a port and its dependencies on the same CD. I'd like to see what you have nonetheless if you don't mind sending it my way. :-) Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message