From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 21 13:59:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20F937BB32 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA15261; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:59:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA05689; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:59:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:59:01 -0500 (EST) To: nm Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: success with osf1_base port? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000321163812.04d20a40@mail.vt.edu> References: <3.0.32.20000321163812.04d20a40@mail.vt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14551.61032.211749.318124@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org nm writes: > Anyone have success with the osf1_base port on > 4.0-RELEASE? > > the netscape rpm gets downloaded and rpm2cpio gets > registered/installed, but the perl script (rpm2cpio) > runs and seems to do nothing at all... it just takes > up memory and cpu... any one else see this happen? > > Is there a 'better' way to get netscape running? It actually works, assuming you have sufficent patience. The rpm2cpio that's part of the rpm package runs *much* quicker. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message