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
