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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD 2.05 ported s/w sources Date: 26 Jul 1995 21:00:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3v6ad3$o8f@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <7wd5mmg0sZ26073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <7wd5mmg0sZ26073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com>, Michael C. Cambria <cambria@sscp.lkg.dec.com> wrote: >but I'd like to understand things before time comes to compile. The notes >say that "The entire ports collection requires only 10MB of storage..." and >the ports are deltas of their original sources. This will be my first >FreeBSD installation, I have no original sources. Well, it's a question of semantics. The ports collection is truely stand-alone from the original sources, and those original sources can move to different mirror sites or even change revisions to a certain extent without the ports framework requiring much change to adapt. However: >A few sentences later, I'm told that "The full oritinal distribution for each >port you build is retrieved dynamicall off the CDROM....." so I'm guessing This still doesn't mean that we didn't opt for user convenience and put those "original tarballs" that we were allowed to distribute into ports/distfiles on the CD. No sense in having people HAVE to use the net if we could save them some trouble. We were prevented in some cases by license (kermit, xv, etc) from doing so and in those cases you obviously won't find the original tarball on the CD - you'll still have to fetch it off the net. Jordan