At 3:55 PM -0400 7/14/00, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > At 3:35 PM -0400 7/14/00, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > >I'd suggest, if you can find a way to make it, making a pkgsrc CD with an
> > >extracted pkgsrc tree.  You can compiles pkgs from the CD and you only
> > >need diskspace for the object files and distfiles instead of all of
> > >pkgsrc.
> >
> > Not obvious in my case.  The CD burner is on a MacOS machine.
>
>can you just download a pkgsrc.tar.gz, extract it, then make an ISO 9660
>cd with the whole pkgsrc tree on it?

I guess in theory I can use suntar and macgzip to do that.  I've 
always used unix machines to manipulate those kinds of files though.


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