Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:44:45 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: conf/800: NFS binary distribution != FTP distribution Message-ID: <199510300244.SAA03322@precipice.shockwave.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199510300250.SAA25110@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 800 >Category: conf >Synopsis: NFS binary distribution != FTP distribution >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 29 18:50:00 PST 1995 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Paul Traina >Organization: Shockwave Engineering >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-951026-SNAP >Environment: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951026-SNAP/ >Description: I pulled down the FTP distribution as-is from wcarchive, as I had some machines I wanted to install locally via NFS and some via FTP. The FTP installations look at the "right files" and do the "right thing." The NFS installation was looking for ".tgz" files, which I assume I could have merely generated by going to each sub-directory and catting together all of the files into a single .tgz file. >How-To-Repeat: mount wcarchive over NFS and try to install from it >Fix: I believe the installation program should be able to handle installing from either a single .tgz or a bunch of files that need to be catted together (ala FTP installation). I think this is a useful enhancement and it might even be reasonable to put this into the 2.1.0 sysinstall. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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