Preparing for FreeBSD 8.0

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 08 July 2009 pm 16:49:08 Gary Dunn wrote:
>
> The last time I tried this with a 7.x release I had a problem
> getting Gnome to install without pulling its source code from
> the network, and soon after the release the ports tree was
> updated with a newer version of Gnome. At that point there
> seemed to be no (easy for me) way to offer a single disk

this will happen over and over again.

You only will be able to have a release version CD or DVD.

It is your decision if you want to keep a system in the release 
state or in the current state.

> learn how to update the ports tree -- to get under the hood and
> get a little dirty. I would rather that be an option, and that
> what comes with a release will serve them well until the next
> release.
>
Knowing BSD since years, I leave very often a system for six and 
more months in its current state.

> Even if there is a way to install from DVD, when will 2.28 hit
> the ports tree? When it does, is there a practical way to
> distribute it on disk? I guess that a compromise would be to do
> a full install, then copy the tarballs to a DVD and have the
> newcomer copy those to their distfiles directory before running
> the meta Port.

It is always possible to build your own packages on one machine, 
pack them onto a DVD and distribute it. You even can do this via 
network.

As I understand FreeBSD, it is against the concept of it to do 
what you want to do.

Erich