From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 18 0:13:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF2B37BB58 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19716 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA00305 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:13:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dustdevil.waterspout.com (dustdevil.waterspout.com [208.13.60.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67B637BB84 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csg@waterspout.com) Received: from waterspout.com (csg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustdevil.waterspout.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00886 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:08:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from csg@waterspout.com) Message-Id: <200004180408.XAA00886@dustdevil.waterspout.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: "C. Stephen Gunn" Subject: Outdated rdist in FreeBSD Base MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <882.956030883.1@waterspout.com> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:08:03 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was discussing the out-of-date rdist in FreeBSD (there is an up to date version in ports) on #BSDCode tonight. Last fall the license changed on rdist v6, and it's made available under an Open Source license now. I send-pr'd a tarball that would add the new version to /usr/src/contrib, but it was apparently never committed. Considering most people have moved towards rsync or other alternatives, the consensus on IRC was to remove the out-of-date rdist from the base system, and to allow rdist users to install rdist6 from the ports collection if needed. Continuing to ship an out-of-date version in the base isn't desirable. -- C. Stephen Gunn URL: http://www.waterspout.com/ WaterSpout Communications, Inc. Email: csg@waterspout.com 427 North 6th Street Phone: +1 765.742.6628 Lafayette, IN 47901 Fax: +1 765.742.0646 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message