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From: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net>
To: <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "phil grainger" <freebsd@pronet.net.au>
Subject: autoupdate binaries transparently 
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:15:21 -0700
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>try ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/news ...
>you fought long and hard to get it ... may as well take advantage of it !

how impossible would it be to auto-update a user's binary installations over
the net?  that would be a nice feature.

-jack



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