From: Dave Feustel (dfeustelmindspring.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 21:56:38 CDT

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On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:33 pm, STeve Andre' wrote:
> > One solution I have used several times is to get all the ports (for 3.4
> > in this case) burned on cdrom from http://chguy.net. The entire port set
> > fit on 3 cdroms and cost me < $20, postage included. I copied all the
> > cdroms to /home/CDs and then could install any port (including
> > dependencies) easily.
> >
> > Dave Feustel 260-422-5330
>
> That isn't likely to work in the case of opera.  Not all packages can be
> released to the world, depending on their licenses.  This is why there
> are more ports than packages.  Since Opera doesn't exist as a package
> I'd bet that the license is the reason.  I don't know anything about chguy,
> but hopefully they aren't making their own packages, which is what they'd
> have to do if they offered everything.

I should have used the word 'packages' instead of 'ports'.
Chguy just copied the openbsd packages dir contents to cdroms
and then mailed me the cdroms. A straight copy; no package generation.
Now that I know how to pkg_add directly from the openbsd mirror,
I may not bother to have the cdroms made by chguy. I'm not sure yet.
Having cd's containing all the packages for 3.4 has been very convenient.
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Dave Feustel 260-422-5330

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