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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: cambria@sscp.lkg.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FBSD 2.05 ported s/w sources Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 13:42:31 -0400 Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 22 Message-ID: <7wd5mmg0sZ26073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sscp.lkg.dec.com I have a question about something I've read in the FreeBSD 2.05R release notes regarding the "ported software collection" (4th paragraph). I'm getting ahead of myself as I have not installed yet (CD arrived last night), 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. 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 that the CD _does_ contain all the sources. Can someone confirm this? I will be installing FreeBSD at home and if I need to ftp sources from the net, I'd prefer to do it from the office (ie. LAN, in the background) vs. at 14.4 from home wasting time I could be installing. Please advise. Thanks, Mike