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Re: FreeBSD

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:58:16PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose" == Jose L Gomez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>     Jose> I would have thought you can probably change that so that
>     Jose> you get a nice close mirror.
> 
> In NetBSD this appears to require making changes to one of the
> packages include makefiles in .../packages/pkgsrc/mk/.  (Possibly

	It is, thanks. The file is situated in /usr/ports/Mk.

> relevant since the *BSDs share a lot of infrastructure.)  This is a
> little more arcane than Debian's "apt" method, where you make changes
> to URLs in /etc/apt/sources.list.  (And definitely not through
> dselect's brain-dead file-oriented interface: to edit a file, you
> throw it away and rewrite from scratch.  Aargh.)

	I think I remember someone on debian's mailing lists going on
about how much they liked dselect :)

	Thanks for the tip, I'll keep investigating :)
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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