freebsd 5.3-release and some observations

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:56:16PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> It can be really very nice if we had a chance to download 2 dvd images 
> (maybe not on ftp mirros but from bittorrent or sth else) so we can have 
> all the packages required. Currently I think this is possible just for i386 
> arch. But creating such 2 dvd images creates  a problem. Which package will 
> go to which DVD image? But I remember that there was a work done for 
> FreeBSD 4.4 release. On 4.4 as you remember we could able to download 4 
> FreeBSD CDs with all packages in it. 
                   ^^^  

It's been many years since all the packages could fit on the 4-disc set.

> istanbul:/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386$ du -s -h packages-5.3-release/
> 14G    packages-5.3-release/ 
> 
> 
> 14G requires more that 2 DVDs. But there are lots of language spesific 
> packages whch can be removed right? 

Yeah, but that's more work.

Kris
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