Subject: Re: Ease of Downloading Packages
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/21/2001 07:00:23
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> symlinks...heh.  some uses of them border on...insane.  like sco.  :)

No! Say it isn't so!

> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/packages/mail/pine-4.40.tgz
>
> 	FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current
> 	packages -> ../../ports/i386/packages-current
> 	packages-current -> packages-5-current
> 	pine-4.40.tgz -> ../All/pine-4.40.tgz
>
> that's four, with one of them nested.  not so bad...i've seen worse.  :)

Well, what I want to know is: how did it figure out I'm running on an
i386, and not a sparc?

cjs
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