Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:46:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. Message-ID: <199607082046.PAA23180@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607081832.UAA01051@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 8, 96 08:32:21 pm
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Any strenuous objections to folding these into one location in -current? > > DO IT! > > The traditional difference has been causing me much grief when > installing via FTP from a CDROM. (It usually required lying about the > dist directory, and providing a separate ``root'' floppy.) > > I'd also like to see FTP installations using the given path as > absolute (as opposed to $HOME-relative) if it starts with a slash, but > that's of course way too late for 2.1.5. Why, you don't like specifying a URL of ftp://ftp/../../../../../../../some/path/name? (my AMD setup causes AMD to translate to a temporary pathname 7 elements long)... I'm tired of this too :-) ... JG
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