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At 9:22 AM +1000 9/9/04, Rob B wrote:
>>This way, all of the package tools will always see the replacement
>>driver, regardless of the state of the environment when you run
>>them :)
>
>For the record - Alpha arch does not exhibit this problem.  This
>is on both 5.3-BETA and 4.10-STABLE

It is almost certainly a matter of luck.  With some INDEX's,
i386 will see the problem and alpha won't.  On other INDEX's,
you'll be the one having trouble and no one on i386 will see
the problem.  It's not like the bugs magically disappear on
alpha.  They just show up in different situations.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu