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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:54:24 -0500
From:      W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
To:        drifter@stratos.net
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetch -A(?)
Message-ID:  <19990324235424M.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:40:14 %2B0000" <19990324234014.A66989@stratos.net>
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From: Rob <drifter@stratos.net>
Subject: fetch -A(?)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:40:14 +0000

>      Hi,
> 
>      Just wondering -- has anybody tried to keep up to date with the
> ports tree under 3.1?  It seems that the ports collection has this
> problem where /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk uses a command called `fetch -A'.
>      But, `fetch -A' doesn't work on a default 3.1 system -- at least
> not the RELEASE I downloaded :)
>      So, is there some sort of configeration value I have to set, or should
> I grab an updated fetch?  Editing that file and eliminating `-A' is kind
> of a pain.

In this case you could probably get away with updating just 'fetch' as
a  hackaround.  Sooner or later, something else will probably break.

If you want to follow the ports collection then you should probably
follow -STABLE too.

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net

> 
>      -Rob
> 
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