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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] packages? & new bootables
In-Reply-To: adrian@cs.wm.edu's message of Sun, 26 Sep 1993 00: 49:30 GMT
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In article <1993Sep26.004930.22485@cs.wm.edu> adrian@cs.wm.edu (Adrian Filipi-Martin) writes:

	   1. I installed using the floppies dated 9/13/93. Is there any thing
	      differnt on the 9/16/93 floppies that I need? e.g. newer kernel.

Nope - if the old ones worked for you already, you don't need to worry
about them any more! :).

As to new kernels, getting your kernel off the floppy install dists is
not really what we had in mind for anyone, and what we recommend is
that you apply our periodic updates (EPSILON is about to roll out the
door in a couple of days), or (better yet) use sup to track our
working up-to-the-minute sources straight from freefall.cdrom.com, our
active development machine (note: Only recommended if you know your
way around the sources well enough to build updated stuff on demand).

If you have an internet connection, look in:

	freefall.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/sup

You'll find there the sup program binary, and a sample supfile to use.

	   2. I've installed several of the packages. (Easy as pie.) but I don't
	      recognize all of the package prefixes. While emacs-19-19 it obvious.
	      What are these packages: sup_*, info_*, jed_*, gic_*, vim_*?

Well, I must confess to not having a seriously orthogonal naming
scheme in place for these guys yet.  Some folks stuck version numbers
in their package names, others didn't (at my request, since at the
time I didn't much like version numbers imbeded in file names, but I'm
coming around to admit that there's not much else one can do in
certain cases).  In any case, freebsd.cdrom.com also implements an
indexing scheme for things, and you can always fetch the 00index.txt
file which is auto-generated from the package descriptions.  There's
also some way to have the ftp server return this information for a
given package on demand, but I can't remember it at the moment!

I'll go through and put all this in a little more order soon, just
as soon as I finish the next revision of the package software - scouts
honor! :)

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.