From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 26 11:44: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D899414E31 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com) Received: [from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (MOT-motgate 1.0) with ESMTP id NAA02339; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:43:20 -0600 (CST)] Received: [from supra.rsch.comm.mot.com (supra.rsch.comm.mot.com [145.1.80.40]) by pobox.mot.com (MOT-pobox 2.0) with ESMTP id NAA25465; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:43:19 -0600 (CST)] Received: by supra.rsch.comm.mot.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4/LJR-2) id NAA29027; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:43:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:43:19 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199903261943.NAA29027@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com> From: "Loren J. Rittle" To: talbotn@bertyboy.sma.uq.edu.au Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Talbot NEIL on Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:59:50 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: 3.1 RELEASE Reply-To: rittle@comm.mot.com References: User-Agent: SEMI/1.10.1 (Morimoto) FLIM/1.11.3 (Saidaiji) Emacs/20.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.10.1 - "Morimoto") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , Talbot NEIL writes: > I am installing 3.1-RELEASE from ftp via URL > ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ > as it is only 2 hops away from me. > it seems to install ok but one thing i would like to know is are there any > packages for FreBSD/alpha or not ?????? It appears that there are ports (i.e. source) but no packages (pre-built binaries). Even under FreeBSD/i386, I have always used the ports to build my own local binary so this has not been a problem for me. Regards, Loren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message