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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout.
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:46:23 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199607081832.UAA01051@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 8, 96 08:32:21 pm
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Any strenuous objections to folding these into one location in -current?
> 
> DO IT!
> 
> The traditional difference has been causing me much grief when
> installing via FTP from a CDROM.  (It usually required lying about the
> dist directory, and providing a separate ``root'' floppy.)
> 
> I'd also like to see FTP installations using the given path as
> absolute (as opposed to $HOME-relative) if it starts with a slash, but
> that's of course way too late for 2.1.5.

Why, you don't like specifying a URL of

ftp://ftp/../../../../../../../some/path/name?

(my AMD setup causes AMD to translate to a temporary pathname 7 elements
long)...

I'm tired of this too  :-)

... JG