Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:36:32AM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Wed, August 1, 2007 11:34 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> >
> 
> > For pkgsrc, why couldn't we just include a recent snapshot of /usr/pkgsrc
> > on the CD (much like how FreeBSD provides a snapshot of /usr/ports).  The
> > tree that I updated last night is 387MB uncompressed, 195MB compressed.
> 
> I agree with this - not including pkgsrc shrinks the size of the download,
> but it's still 80-something meg, and you end up using the bandwidth anyway
> pulling pkgsrc down through anoncvs, which also requires a bunch of extra
> steps which are only documented in a few places.

ftp.netbsd.org has tarballs of anoncvs checkouts. That makes the initial
setup much faster.

Joerg