From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 31 22:41:20 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA00635 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 22:41:20 -0700 Received: from mg1.cdsnet.net (mrcpu@mg1.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA00629 ; Wed, 31 May 1995 22:41:19 -0700 Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by mg1.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.10) id WAA04768; Wed, 31 May 1995 22:41:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 22:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: gil@limbic.ssdl.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Changed information for PR conf/465 In-Reply-To: <199506010436.VAA28066@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since the URL spec allows ftp to have an account and password specified, why not set it up to use that? Then it can work both ways... On Wed, 31 May 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Synopsis: Cannot ftp install from non-anonymous ftp site > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: jkh > State-Changed-When: Wed May 31 21:34:21 PDT 1995 > State-Changed-Why: > This is not a bug, this is a feature. Given the structure > of the ftp installation now, especially as it no longer > "hits the disk" for intermediate files, I feel the trade-off > to be worth it and will not be changing this. Those wishing > a different local installation method can use NFS. >