From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 11:51:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29659 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29650 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA26984 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:51:31 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03897 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:51:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA01051 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:32:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607081832.UAA01051@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:32:21 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19375.836808547@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 7, 96 11:49:07 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)