Subject: Re: pcnfsd need solution
To: David Forbes <dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@mpc-data.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/02/1999 13:54:06
David Forbes wrote:
> 
> > We have now got our Cats system all ready to be our server
> > but need to find the sources for recompiling rpc.pcnfsd.
> 
> I think the sources are in the NetBSD tree, aren't they?  If you 
> haven't got a source tree, then ftp.netbsd.org has got it, but if 
> you're in Chigwell, then sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk would probably be better 
> (NetBSD is in packages/NetBSD directory).  If you go into the -current 
> directory, you should be able to find the specific source files that 
> you need and download them, rather than a huge .tar.gz
> 
Users of Demon Internet do not need to go that far. ftp.demon.co.uk also
mirrors ftp.netbsd.org in /pub/NetBSD. This includes all the files
required for the pkgsrc part of the tree.

Its quite a big speed up to tell pkgsrc to look for the package on
ftp.demon.co.uk before trying other sites.

Mike