Subject: Re: installing 1.4_ALPHA via ftp
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/08/1999 15:50:17
Luke Mewburn wrote:

> Simon Burge writes:
> > > > Seems to be unhappy:
> > > > 
> > > >      Status: Failed
> > > >     Command: /usr/bin/ftp -a 'ftp://ftp.netbsd.org//pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4_ALPHA/
> > > 
> > > just noticed the second goof up here                ^^ should only be /
> > 
> > This doesn't actually cause a problem in practice.  The fix is
> > relatively simple (if the pathname component starts with a `/',
> > then skip it), but I haven't got a chance to do it yet.  Please
> > send a PR!
> 
> ftp was recently modified so that the leading `/'s on an ftp URL are
> ignored (effectively per RFC 1738 (?)), so this shouldn't be a
> problem.

That explains what it works, but I fixed it anyway.  "Aesthetics" :-)

Simon.