Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:20:11 -0700 (PDT) From: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM bug Message-ID: <m0wj7X9-000hy2C@aahz.jf.intel.com> 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. -- Alan Batie ------ What goes up, must come down. batie@aahz.jf.intel.com \ / Ask any system administrator. +1 503-264-8844 (voice) \ / --unknown D0 D2 39 0E 02 34 D6 B4 \/ 5A 41 21 8F 23 5F 08 9D
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