Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <XFMail.001117103013.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001117121241.A87182@vger.bsdhome.com>
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On 17-Nov-00 Brian Dean wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:59:05AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >> I have just committed a `44bsd-rdist' port. >> So the question is, do we totally remove `rdist' from the base system, >> or update it to rdist 6.1.5? > > The consensus seems to be to get rid of this. Some folks (including > me) may need this tool soon after install, but don't necessarily have > immediate external net connectivity from which to get the port. To > this end, why not leave this in base, but make a seperate collection > for sysinstall (default to _not_ install) and put it there along with > the other 'r' tools, and enable the building of these with a make.conf > variable for source upgrades? > > If this is acceptable, I'm volunteering to do the patches. Umm, if it becomes a port, you can just install the package during installation from sysinstall. So, what you have asked for is already done. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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