The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
Perry Hutchison
perryh at pluto.rain.com
Tue Sep 12 17:39:44 PDT 2006
> > ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree
> > does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from
> > CD.
>
> That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't
> complete, as in: not all the ports are there.
Any idea why? (I am referring to the ports tree itself, i.e. the
collection of skeleton directories. The set of distfiles provided
on CDs 3 and 4 is necessarily incomplete, both due to limited space
and because some distfiles have legal restrictions that prevent
their inclusion.)
> I stopped installing the ports tree from the install CD a long
> time ago for that reason.
Perhaps sysinstall's rather strong recommendation to install the
ports ought to be toned down a bit, e.g. to suggest installing
the ports from CD only if one does not have a high-speed Internet
connection.
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