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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.1R/ports and ports-2.1 on ftp.freebsd.org
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 20:35:06 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512150911.BAA02243@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Dec 15, 95 01:11:53 am
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>I swapped the directory and links, because I realized that it's
>impossible to "get ports-2.1.tar.gz" from the upper level due to the
>.notar file and "get ports.tar.gz" inside 2.1R would return a tarfile
>consisting of a single symbolic link. ;)

It don't think that this is true.  It should be possible to
do "get ports-2.1.tar.gz" so long as there is no .notar in the ports-2.1
directory.  It certainly works here.

David