[FreeBSD AMD64 Current] passive ftp. WAS: proper Options release name string for: SESNAP 0730

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 30 July 2004 05:18 pm, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:00:39PM -0500, stuart nichols wrote:
> > I don't know why it needs to do a package install on a new system (I
> > would think that if its required, it might as well be in the
> > distribution), but let me know what I should do from this point.  When I
> > accept "OK" on the packages/INDEX message it simply tries to get the
> > package INDEX from the same server again without asking me if I want to
> > reset the media, then it gives me the "unable to get packages/INDEX"
> > message again.  Endless loop.
>
> I don't know why it is doing that.  There's no packages for any
> of SESNAP's snapshots.  I know the i386 ones work.  Can you try a
> minimal install instead of adding all the other stuff you pulled?

It's going to want the perl package by default.  Also, the X stuff is 
installed via packages.

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