[olug] Fw: FreeBSD 5.0 Release Available

[neal r]

  Publish /usr/ports via NFS or Samba, mount it on the slow machine, and just
do the 'make install' on the slow machine - leave the building to the big
boys. You can also just tar the selected port and send it - a little bulky,
but it works.


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PKG_CREATE(1)           FreeBSD General Commands Manual
PKG_CREATE(1)
NAME      pkg_create - a utility for creating software package distributions

SYNOPSIS      pkg_create [-YNOhjvyz] [-P pkgs] [-p prefix] [-f contents] [-i
iscript]                 [-I piscript] [-k dscript] [-K pdscript] [-r
rscript]                 [-s srcdir] [-t template] [-X excludefile] [-D
displayfile]                 [-m mtreefile] [-o originpath] -c comment -d
description -f                 packlist pkg-filename      pkg_create [-YNhvy]
-b pkg-name [pkg-filename]

DESCRIPTION      The pkg_create command is used to create packages that will
subsequently      be fed to one of the package extraction/info utilities.
The input      description and command line arguments for the creation of a
package are      not really meant to be human-generated, though it is easy
enough to do      so.  It is more expected that you will use a front-end tool
for the job      rather than muddling through it yourself.  Nonetheless, a
short descrip-      tion of the input syntax is included in this document.


Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> >   I've had 5.0rc1 running on a workstation for some time ... no
> > complaints. I think the actual release was rc3, so its had much bug
> > fixing since the version I've got working, which has been trouble free.
> >
> >   There are some who are more conservative - I am pretty sure
> > 4.8-RELEASE will be out within the next thirty days.
>
> I'll say.  Just now introducing the FreeBSD equivalent of ext2 sparse
> superblocks into a "stable" release (x.0 releases of any piece of software
> are really just extremely late betas, after all :) makes me want to leave
> the playing with 5.0 stuff to braver people.  Or at least to
> non-production systems :)
>
> >   Is anyone besides me using BSD? Chris Garrity, apparently Brian, too -
> > any others willing to come out of the closet?
>
> I install it once in a while.  Found a FreeBSD 3.4 CD i never used a
> couple days ago :)
>
> I'm still in awe at people who think that taking 20 minutes to install
> bash - download and compile bash-2.05b.tar.gz, along with the dependencies
> - is so great.
>
> The ports collection (and the NetBSD and OpenBSD equivalents) is nice and
> all when you're trying to get stuff compiled, but it needs to friggin'
> learn how to deal with binary packages so that I can build packages on the
> fast boxes and install them on the slower boxes without going through
> RedHat-style RPM hell trying to get all the dependencies met.
>
> That's my rant for today after watching stuff compile on a 250MHz Cyrix
> MII last night after I *knew* I had already built it on a faster machine.
> It's slower than the clock speed would suggest :)
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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