From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 15:23:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FDC37BD71; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wigstah@akitanet.co.uk) Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by elwood.akitanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA48520; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:32:14 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:13:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson To: James Wyatt Cc: spork , Dominik Brettnacher , "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" , jabley@patho.gen.nz, dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, James Wyatt wrote: > Amen! I kinda wish it would install a tarball to the HD and start a > background process to unpack it... Maybe make a metaport that has just > enough of the ports setup to ask for the rest. There could be a file in > the dist directory with the ports tree. - Jy@ Yeah, OpenBSD does a ports.tar.gz , but then it also does man.tar.gz, bin.tar.gz, etc... kinda sweet, as an additional choice if you just can't be bothered CVS'ing and like me feel far more efficient FTP'ing one file and tar zxvf'ing it... :) I'm weird like that though... -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message