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Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07


From: "Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:36:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, August 1, 2007 11:34 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>

> For pkgsrc, why couldn't we just include a recent snapshot of /usr/pkgsrc
> on the CD (much like how FreeBSD provides a snapshot of /usr/ports).  The
> tree that I updated last night is 387MB uncompressed, 195MB compressed.

I agree with this - not including pkgsrc shrinks the size of the download,
but it's still 80-something meg, and you end up using the bandwidth anyway
pulling pkgsrc down through anoncvs, which also requires a bunch of extra
steps which are only documented in a few places.





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