Subject: Re: Instructions to go from 0.9 to current (fwd)
To: Eric S. Hvozda <ack@clark.net>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- Iowa State University <michaelv@iastate.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/28/1994 09:51:56
Eric S. Hvozda wrote:
>Michael L. VanLoon -- Iowa State University sez:
>> Ftp.iastate.edu is an official NetBSD-current mirror.
>> Please use it. All binary snapshots will lag sun-lamp by a half-day
>> to a day, depending on when they're put up for sup. Ftp.iastate.edu
>> doesn't have a small connection limit, not does it do anything but ftp
>> -- please abuse it for this purpose instead of sun-lamp.
>Are there plans to get a full source tree there yet? I find if I'm looking for
>anything but ksrc, you can't get it. Or are you hiding the rest :-)
Huh?
[michaelv@ponderous]~> dir /home/ftp/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-current/src/src/usr.bin/w
total 27
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 274 Jan 29 04:42 Makefile
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 3566 Dec 17 01:21 attime.c
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 4043 Dec 17 01:21 proc_compare.c
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 2464 Dec 17 01:21 uptime.1
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 4419 Dec 17 01:21 w.1
-r--r--r-- 1 32766 system 9532 Dec 17 01:21 w.c
Looks like all the source is there to me.
>Also, I now there was a problem with getting sup to work over there (something
>about afs space not preserving soemthing). Are there plans to add a
>supserver in the future perhaps?
No, the situation hasn't changed. We'll probably end up setting up a
supserver on a different machine. For now, however, we don't provide
sup service (sorry -- wish we could).
--Michael
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