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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:50:38 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ports tree FROZEN until 2000 PST July 21st
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722124657.6366A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <199807220941.CAA07100@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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Hi,

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  *  It's just the unlikely situation when he doesn't have the CD, he has the
>  * port archive and he tries to fetch the distfile from the network; but this
>  * is quite unlikely -- he will have to retrieve the latest version of the
>  * port anyway...
> 
> But to get the port archive, the user needs the CD or ftp access; and
> in either case, we guarantee the availability of the distfile. ;)

 Surely it was a good ideea placing copies of the distfiles in
MASTER_SITES_BACKUP :) !
 Well, at least I learnt something from all this chat: the FreeBSD ports
system is quite unbeatable !

 So everything's OK !

> 
> Satoshi
> 

 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)


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