Sorry to need to necro-post this thread, dead since Xmas eve, but I don't want to waste considerable digging over the last year or so about problems with the -RELEASE DVD1 contents that seem pertinent.
Feel free to ignore <&^}=
Quoting post #188:
For two desktop environments: things are simplified, but not automatically installed.
Re: <
https://www.freebsd.org/where/#choose-image>, FreeBSD-provided
⋯dvd1⋯ files include packages for
x11/gnome and
x11/kde5. Context:
The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests.... - freebsd/freebsd-src
github.com
That's regarding FreeBSD 14, where pkg-stage.sh properly covers all DVD1 packages, however it had been broken ever since at least 12.2 and 13.0 in several respects.
Ignoring github, and because for me it's easier to compare different releases, using:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/scripts/pkg-stage.sh
where main (= head?) and 14.0 do not currently differ.
_DVD_PACKAGES="archivers/unzip
devel/git
emulators/linux_base-c7
graphics/drm-kmod
graphics/drm-510-kmod
graphics/drm-515-kmod
misc/freebsd-doc-all
net/mpd5
net/rsync
ports-mgmt/pkg
ports-mgmt/portmaster
shells/bash
shells/zsh
security/sudo
sysutils/screen
sysutils/tmux
www/firefox
www/links
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
x11/gnome
x11/kde5
x11/xorg"
All of 12.3, 12.4, 13.1 and 13.2 wanted the no longer existing
emulators/linux_base-c6; it had been -c7 for ages.
12.4, 13.1 and 13.2 wanted
x11/gnome3
after gnome3 became gnome
so no linux or gnome on those.
12.3 and 12.4 lacked the then drm-fbsd12.0-kmod pkg, instead it had the (then not existing for 12.x) drm-{legacy,stable}-kmod, so it took me weeks to get S3 suspend / resume working.
Oh, and 13.1 still had
devel/subversion
devel/subversion-static
after the change to
devel/git
Is this a complaint? No, it's a description of a breakdown in communication and/or a lack of knowing who's responsible for maintaining that list in /src/release/scripts/pkg-stage.sh
I wrote to Glen Barber a few times during the 12.4 release cycle, pointing this out, but at the time the emphasis was on getting a broken link fixed, that hadn't been merged from 13.x, re which Graham thankfully intervened on my behalf.
Glen figured, I gather, that it wasn't re@'s job to make sure that list was up to date with present ports reality, citing possible build failures. re@ in general appeared to have little interest in the DVD, maybe due to having great bandwidth, where it's hard to imagine "third world" conditions.
My interest was then due to negligible bandwidth, broken sessions and efforts over months to get 'bsdconfig packages' working again, having been broken for years due to asynchronous changes to
pkg(8) and some personal differences.
I had achieved fixing that, but my patches got left behind when the relevant PRs were closed, by which time I'd run out of puff, literally, and noone else indicated any interest.
My point is that if release CDs or DVDs will include packages, whether official -RELEASE or any other collections or whole alternative package sets any people care to assemble using the /src/release code, someone(s) will have to maintain accuracy and facilitate distribution.
smithi out.
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