5.4 NFS install broken?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:25:05AM -0700, David P. Discher wrote:
> Well, not broken, but its does not look like it was documented.
> 
> I was just doing this yesterday, copied ISO #1 completely, then in cd#2
> 
>     # cd /iso2/packages ; tar -cf - | tar -xvf - -C /nfsinstall/ 
> packages
> 
> The file packages/INDEX needs to be updated.  I don't know how
> to create this, so I went the ftp servers, and grabbed the INDEX
> from the combined release.

What was wrong with the INDEX from the ISO image?

> There is a PROBLEM WITH THIS INDEX file.  There are TWO entries for
> perl in it.  Perl 5.6.2 and 5.8.2 I do believe. The two CD ISOs
> only contained perl 5.8.2.  Vi and delete the 5.6.2 line, and
> this seemed to work. (Don't quote me on exact version numbers.)

This isn't a problem, they are two different packages coming from two
different ports.  Why do you think it was a problem? 

Kris
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