FBSD PowerPak

[W. J. Williams]

Rob,

I can download the Ports collection and burn to DVD or CD-R.  Would you be
willing to pay for this?

Will

--- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> > I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1.
> > 
> > I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop
> setup.
> > Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as
> > Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I
> > don't have broadband and have no hope of getting it where I live, so I
> > was counting on the 4-CD set to fill in the gaps.
> 
> xemacs21 is scheduled for disc1 if possible, but I suppose it was
> bumped because of lack of space.  There are some xemacs and mplayer
> support packages on disc 3 and 4, but xemacs and mplayer themselves
> are missing.  It looks like the CD layout could do with some tweaking.
> 
> > I noticed on the FreeBSDmall web site that they sell a PowerPak with
> 10
> > CDs. This is supposed to be the entire ports collection. Sounds like
> > just what I need - except it's based on FBSD 4.6 which is one year
> old.
> > 
> > So my question - I am wondering if the distfiles in this PowerPak are
> > going to be of much use? Shelling out $40 isn't such a great hardship
> if
> > the disfiles work as advertised, but I'm going to be more than a
> little
> > pissed if it generates nothing but error messages. Does anybody know
> if
> > the PowerPak will work with 5.1? Has anyone actually tried it?
> 
> As you noted, it's based on 4.6, so the contents are a year old.  If
> you don't mind getting year-old versions of ports, then go for it.
> 
> Kris

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Will Williams