From: Joachim Schipper (j.schippermath.uu.nl)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 08:11:50 CDT

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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:50:34AM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca?o wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Madars <madars.listsgmail.com> wrote:
> >...I do trust the packages that are on the CDs, but as
> >space is limited, you can't put all of them there.
> Does the OpenBSD project consider the use of DVD to distribute the
> package set on a per architecture basis?
> IMHO can be in line with the project's objective of distributing the
> OS (and packages?) in CD (or in this case, DVD) sets to support the
> project.
> On the buyer's side, it guarantees the reliability/authenticity of the
> packages; on the project's side, it's a new way of distributing OS
> support applications.

Now *that* would suck. Most of my i386 boxes won't read a DVD, and I'm
fairly certain that getting a sparc to read a DVD isn't as easy as
making a i386 do the same.

                Joachim

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