Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:23:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? Message-ID: <20000902152333.B7615@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021358090.22061-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>; from "John Galt" on Sat Sep 2 14:06:31 GMT 2000 References: <20000902145603.A28852@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021358090.22061-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
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In the last episode (Sep 02), John Galt said: > So why is it still forbidden in a fresh download? I have my own > reasons for downloading what I did, but until the un-forbid fix > propagates, I still stand by my statement: it was once deprecated, > and there's still a ports tree you can download today wherein you > can't install lynx, so it is still at least in part deprecated. It's not a fresh download. It's a 4.0-RELEASE download, which was *frozen* as soon as the tag was laid down in March. You're guaranteed that every time you download 4.0-RELEASE, you're going to get exactly the same bits, ports tree and everything. Take a look at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ . You'll see a bunch of directories, one for each release. Each of those subdirs has a ports/ports.tgz file, which consists of the ports tree at the time the release was frozen. You're downloading the ports.tgz for 4.0-RELEASE which is dated March 20. If you were to download the 3.4-RELEASE boot floppies and install that, you would get a ports tree from December '99. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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