Subject: Re: Instructions to go from 0.9 to current (fwd)
To: None <uunet!iastate.edu!michaelv@uunet.UU.NET>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- Iowa State University <michaelv@iastate.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/28/1994 23:52:55
>>>> 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?
>For quite a while (until very recently, within the last few weeks) the src
>directory on iastate only contained a "lib" directory, and that was empty.
>I meant to send mail about it for quite a while, but I kept forgetting about
>it. I believe that's what Eric was referring to. Obviously, whatever was
>the problem has been fixed.
OK, there *was* a problem with the sup script, but I fixed that
several weeks ago. I've been watching it and it has been working
flawlessly for almost a month.
So, yes, I guess there was a time when you couldn't get at stuff, but
it's been feeling better for some time now. :-) Sorry for the
confusion.
--Michael
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