Official Binary ports package in separate DVD

[bsaidus]

As long as I have no internet connection at home, I wonder if there are any official binary ports that I can download in ISO format (DVD) to use at home (packages directory on the FreeBSD DVD lacks many packages like mc, bind, postfix, dovecot).

 

[SirDice]

I wonder if there is any official binary ports that I can download in iso format ( DVD ) to use at home !!

There isn't any. Not really needed either as you can just download all the packages and burn them to a CD or DVD.

(Packages directory in FreeBSD DVD lacks many packages (I thinks!! ): like mc, bind, postfix, dovecote ... ).

You shouldn't use them anyway. By the time you get to install the -RELEASE the packages will be old.

 

[SirDice]

Handbook: A.2 FTP Sites

 

[bsaidus]

Thank you. If I use the FreeBSD 7.4 distribution then what are the packages that I should download. Those in the packages-7-stable directory or those in the packages-7.4-release directory?

Oh, ok, I read the file .message.

Thanks.

 

[YZMSQ]

Thank you. If I use the FreeBSD 7.4 distribution then what are the packages that I should download. Those in the packages-7-stable directory or those in the packages-7.4-release directory?

Oh, ok, I read the file .message.

Thanks.

Both, while packages-7-stable offers much newer apps.

 

[SirDice]

The packages-7.4-release directory will contain the exact same packages as on the CD/DVD. They are never updated.