From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 29 11:37:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA02778 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02773 Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA28121; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:36:27 -0700 (PDT) To: "Gary Palmer" cc: "Pedro Giffuni S." , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MH mail: part II (Final Reply) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:44 BST." <8816.830799824@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:36:27 -0700 Message-ID: <28117.830802987@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Umm. It worked several times from the 2.1R CDROM for me, at least. It > won't (and can't) work from a DOS partition as the names are truncated > (Thanks, Microsoft), and I don't think anyone ever thought of doing Correct. I have a small script which someone donated for correcting the package names using the INDEX - I'll include it in the utils directory of the next CDROM. > packages over NFS ... if I remember right it's ``undefined'' what will > happen in this case. Jordan may correct me however. Installing packages over NFS works just fine - it's just like fetching them from the local filesystem as far as the package installer is concerned. Same goes for tape. Jordan