Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 22:45:02 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: John Clark <email@john.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ports from CD Message-ID: <8029.858408302@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:23:40 PST." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970314102229.3361H-100000@localhost>
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> > Uh, I hate to disillusion you Doug, but the package installation tool > > in sysinstall will work with any of the media types, including floppy. :) > > I should have made that clearer. People constantly report that sysinstall > won't install packages over anything but CDROM. DOS pkg_adds obviously > fail, but ftp also doesn't appear to work. Unless you fixed it..:) I've fixed quite a bit, though perhaps not everything - it's hard to say without getting more feedback. It certainly works in my testing. Also, many of the people complaining about being unable to download packages in the past were actually complaining about a bogus INDEX file in the packages directory which listed the *superset*, e.g. ports. Then they went to download the netscape package and were disappointed. :) The current releases prune the INDEX first to match the packages. Why don't we revisit this with 2.2 and see if people are still having problems loading packages from media other than CDROM? It certainly should work. Jordan
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