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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:30:13 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
Subject: Re: updating rdist
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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.

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