From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 9:47:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acstmp.bu.edu (acstmp.bu.edu [128.197.153.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F56B37B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgllghr@bu.edu) Received: from localhost (mgllghr@localhost) by acstmp.bu.edu ((8.9.3.buoit.v1.0.ACS)/) with ESMTP id MAA292466; Wed, 30 May 2001 12:47:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:47:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Gallagher To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indexing CDs In-Reply-To: <44ae3vrksr.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Taking shoe out of mouth...) Ah yes. I tried it last night. No sym-link. You're right, I was wrong. :-) ~mike On 30 May 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > mgllghr@bu.edu (Gallagher) writes: > > > Isn't /usr/ports/distfiles a sym-link to the cdrom drive? I > > thought I read that on the list somewhere, but I could be wrong. (At > > work, can't check the machine right now) > > You're wrong. If /cdrom/ports/distfiles (that's the default; the > exact location can be overridden, of course) exists, it will be used > instead of the master site for FTP downloads. /usr/ports/distfiles > will still be checked first, as far as I can see... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message