Re: FBSD PowerPak

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 07/17/03

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To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>

    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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