Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

[Nick Devito <nick125@gmail.com>]

It would *probably* be easier to take the /usr/portage/distfiles
directory and pop that on a CD, or, have the option of putting those
files in a directory on the livecd. It shouldn't be too hard to do,
however, it would take up more space on the CD. 
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 11:59 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 11:12 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> >>> For example, if we hand out CDs at conventions etc, we would have to
> >>> also hand out source CDs.
> > 
> >> As my reply there, however, Gentoo does still have it better than most, in
> >> that the LiveCDs contain relatively few binaries, and they tend to be
> >> relatively core packages to which sources should still be available even
> >> for historic releases, should we wish to continue distributing the
> >> historical LiveCDs. The packages CDs OTOH...
> > 
> > Umm... The LiveCD has almost 700 packages on it.  Perhaps you mean the
> > InstallCD?
> > 
> 
> I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made
> to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just
> make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source
> ISO with the binary one in /historical.
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