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From: revell@ghidra.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 release
Date: 17 Jul 1992 20:44:49 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
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Message-ID: <147pi1INNb1g@ghidra.UU.NET>
References: <76029@ut-emx.uucp> <1451eoINNcsv@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr)
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In article <1451eoINNcsv@agate.berkeley.edu> cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
} In article <76029@ut-emx.uucp> dll@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Don Loflin) writes:
} >
} >It's also on gatekeeper.dec.com, and probably other mirrors (but not
} >yet ftp.uu.net).
Because agate.berkeley.edu no longer allows our mirroring program to
connect. Strange, it worked fine the other day and the new release
would have been here by now if our access hadn't been cut.
I've changed the mirroring at UUNET to run off a different archive, and
ftp.uu.net now has a copy of 386BSD 0.1, sans the binaries [with one
exception noted below].
} ftp.uu.net will probably never be a real mirror site;
} they refuse to carry the binaries, as well as the sources,
Chris, this is false and I believe you know it. ftp.uu.net has had all
the previous 386BSD source in it's archives, and we'd have had the 0.1
release yesterday if agate.berkeley.edu didn't deny our ftp
connections.
It is true that UUNET has not had the 386BSD binaries, but then we've
*always* had the no-binaries policy. The on-binaries policy is
scheduled to be dropped as soon as I get seveal GB of new disk added.
Since I'd expected that would be done this week and it's been delayed,
I have allowed the 386BSD 0.1 bootable images to be mirrored.
} and therefore (In the release notes) the Jolitzes encourage *NOT*
} getting it from uunet...
That's a real shame, but I have to say that I don't think it will
stop anyone. Had I been contacted, as I assume the other archive
admins listed were, we could have come to some arrangement. I've
publically posted that UUNET's no-binaries policy was going to be
lifted when more disk was added.
--
James Revell Network Services Mgr <revell@uunet.uu.net> /8^{~