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From: Nick Devito <nick125@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:32:36
Message-Id: 1152030370.29593.45.camel@continental.nick125.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing by Patrick McLean
1 It would *probably* be easier to take the /usr/portage/distfiles
2 directory and pop that on a CD, or, have the option of putting those
3 files in a directory on the livecd. It shouldn't be too hard to do,
4 however, it would take up more space on the CD.
5 On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 11:59 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
6 > Chris Gianelloni wrote:
7 > > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 11:12 +0000, Duncan wrote:
8 > >>> For example, if we hand out CDs at conventions etc, we would have to
9 > >>> also hand out source CDs.
10 > >
11 > >> As my reply there, however, Gentoo does still have it better than most, in
12 > >> that the LiveCDs contain relatively few binaries, and they tend to be
13 > >> relatively core packages to which sources should still be available even
14 > >> for historic releases, should we wish to continue distributing the
15 > >> historical LiveCDs. The packages CDs OTOH...
16 > >
17 > > Umm... The LiveCD has almost 700 packages on it. Perhaps you mean the
18 > > InstallCD?
19 > >
20 >
21 > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made
22 > to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just
23 > make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source
24 > ISO with the binary one in /historical.
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