From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 8: 0:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5849714D4F for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id XAA09084; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:59:49 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37EB9175.82CD58DC@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:57:57 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > > It's designed to be easy to use, so it first checks -s parameter, then > PKGSERVER environment variable, then the machine's toplevel domain. If the > toplevel domain contains only two letters it attemps to use > ftp..freebsd.org, else it defaults to ftp.freebsd.org and prompts > whether the user wants to use it. Well... that's better than directing all users of the world automatically to ftp.freebsd.org. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message