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From: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
Subject: Re: CDROM bug
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:20:11 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <28666.867779598@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 1, 97 10:53:18 am
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> It is probably that the ports tree on the livefs is actually -current;

FYI, I didn't install the ports tree at installation time, as I was afraid
it would have distfiles in it also, being off the cdrom.  I copied over the
live ports, as I don't think Unionfs is reliable yet (is it? That would be
a win...).  And it would solve a lot of problems, especially all the packages
that don't even have distfiles on the cdrom, if the fetcher could cope with
a proxy.  One way to do that would be to use lynx as the fetcher with the
option to configure http and ftp proxies in the standard web way --- virtually
everyone with a firewall has a web-based proxy, whereas native ftp proxies
seem to vary in operation quite a bit.

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