Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:51:15 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: packages/Latest CD questions Message-ID: <19981226015115.07125@welearn.com.au>
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On my 2.2.6 CD (the only recent version that I've seen) there's a
packages category "Latest" which uses package file names without the
version numbers. This seems useful for getting a script to install a
list of packages from CD, regardless of the version of FreeBSD CDs
being used.
1. Will this work for recent and future CDs too? Will packages/Latest
be found on CD1 for all versions over, say, the past year and the first
half of next year? If so I can spend time working with what I've got
here, and make the end result available to new users who are more up to
date as well as those who are taking forever to get their first
installation going.
2. Some versions of the FreeBSD CDs have packages all over the place.
My script would need to check the FreeBSD version and prompt the user
to mount the correct CD. Is there somewhere I can find out which CD a
given package is on for each version of the CD sets? I'd want to go
back as far as a year, or to the last edition of The Complete FreeBSD,
whichever is longer. At the moment that means 2.2.5 onwards.
3. packages/Latest doesn't contain as many files as packages/All, and
the difference would be due to more than one version of some packages
existing in packages/All. Is there any other reason why a package might
not be listed in packages/Latest?
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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