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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:59:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: success with osf1_base port?
Message-ID:  <14551.61032.211749.318124@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000321163812.04d20a40@mail.vt.edu>
References:  <3.0.32.20000321163812.04d20a40@mail.vt.edu>

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nm writes:
 > Anyone have success with the osf1_base port on
 > 4.0-RELEASE?
 > 
 > the netscape rpm gets downloaded and rpm2cpio gets
 > registered/installed, but the perl script (rpm2cpio)
 > runs and seems to do nothing at all... it just takes
 > up memory and cpu... any one else see this happen?
 > 
 > Is there a 'better' way to get netscape running?

It actually works, assuming you have sufficent patience.

The rpm2cpio that's part of the rpm package runs *much* quicker.

Drew

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