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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Missing Packages on 96May01 Snap CD?
Date: 02 Jun 1996 09:52:35 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: Li Zhengchun's message of Fri, 31 May 1996 21:03:26 PST

In article <31AFCF1E.4E92@cet.co.jp> Li Zhengchun <lilyli@cet.co.jp> writes:

 * I had the same problem using ftp as the sysinstall media, its there but 
 * sysinstall can't get it for some reason.  But hey its the SNAP.

There are some ports for which we can't build packages and distribute
them via ftp and/or CDROM, because of various restrictions.

It's not easy to integrate this information into the install program.
Sorry about that, we are trying to fix it.

Satoshi