From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 13 17:23:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A3DB37B406 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 00:23:28 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B786F7E.9060705@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:23:26 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? References: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net> <3B75D33D.68368F22@softweyr.com> <3B764D47.6060902@yahoo.com> <20010812152709.A73284@NewGold.NET> <3B76FD51.40805@yahoo.com> <20010813073451.5b874e7e.steveo@eircom.net> <3B779A50.7050807@yahoo.com> <20010813122957.B2472@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DOD/DFAS, as well as DOD/DISA. I find it amazing that the CIA has a more lax policy than DFAS and DISA. David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:13:52AM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > >>from what i've read here, not many undrestand the actual mindset of the >>military when it comes to computing. >> >>the closest would be the guy who mentioned that since ports are on the >>CD's that they should be acceptable, this is incorrect. >> > > You are making sweeping generalizations. Please stop and be specific > which parts of the military. It is correct for the CIA. > > The CIA[*] will not let you bring in any download bits off the net (or > floppies containing them) to compile locally and install. HOWEVER, if > the bits come on a CDROM from a commercial vendor, they are "OK". So in > the FreeBSD case, packages are on the commercial 4-disc set, and thus can > be installed. In older days for Solaris, one had to find a CD offering > from say Walnut Creek CDROM that contained precompiled versions of GNU > bits for Solaris. Again, if it was something their purchasing could buy > from a vendor an receive it was OK. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message