Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 07:47:20 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. Message-ID: <199607082147.HAA04979@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199607082046.PAA23180@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 8, 96 03:46:23 pm
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>> > 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? I've always done local ftp installs with an absolute path, but putting in two slashes: ftp://hostname//absolute/path That's always worked for me. David
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