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On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, Alice in Wonderbread wrote:

> Suppose David Brownlee said:
> > 
> > 	Another thought... The FreeBSD people have an install setup that
> > 	will install off an ftp server (plus one floppy in a PC).
> > 
> > 	Thi is nice, cool etc.. but I wonder if they've taken it a step
> > 	further and permitted people to install binary packages from
> > 	an ftp server?
> 
> I think their bsd.port.mk mechanism is better, actually.  
> cd /usr/ports/shells/tcsh ; make
> ftp's the source if you don't have it, patches it, and builds it.  I'd
> _love_ to have this in with a collecting point for patches. 
> 
> I am moving OS's around on my disks, but will have a NetBSD back soon
> to put this in if there's interest.
> 
> Ben *^)
>