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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2000 18:56:38 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Murali Bashyam <mbashyam@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD tar files
Message-ID:  <20000804185638.D236@parish>
In-Reply-To: <200008041735.KAA27041@omega.cisco.com>; from mbashyam@cisco.com on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:35:10AM -0700
References:  <20000804182751.B236@parish> <200008041735.KAA27041@omega.cisco.com>

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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:35:10AM -0700, Murali Bashyam wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:03:07PM -0700, Murali Bashyam wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Where can i find tar.gz files of FREEBSD source code?  A mirror site (URL) which has
> > > the source code in the form of tar files will help.
> > > 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/src/
> > 
> > for 4.1 sources. If you want another version (-stable or -current for
> > example) then start at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and follow
> > your nose.
> > 
> > BTW the files have .aa, .ab, .ac etc. extensions. They are .tgz
> > tarballs but then split(1) into ~240KB chunks to allow easy install
> > from floppies. They are first cat(1)'ed together then piped to tar(1),
> > e.g.:
> > 
> >    for i in $dists; do
> >         echo "  Extracting source component: $i"
> > 	cat s${i}.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C ${DESTDIR}/usr/src
> >    done
> > 
> > See the file install.sh in each sub-directory.
> 
> I am sitting behind a firewall, which for some reason does not allow me
> to ftp this stuff.

I believe using ftp in passive mode allows you to do this (never had
to use it myself).

> If there is a 'single' tar.gz file or a few 'tar.gz'
> files of directories such as include,src,lib etc,

Not hat i am aware of. If there is, then hopefully someone else will
jump in and tell you.

> then that will help
> easy download using netscape browser. Downloading each of these split files
> is clearly pain. BTW, i was able to download NetBSD or OPENBSD  this way. 
> Is there a similar mechanism for FREEBSD?
> 
> Thanks,
> Murali
> 
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Murali
> > > 
> > > 
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