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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why do many of the /usr/ports point to freefall???
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 15:40:03 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Zenin wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that quite a few of the Makefiles in /usr/ports have the
> MASTER_SITES pointing to freefall.freebsd.org, which I find quite odd

You must have an old ports collection - this was changed after freefall
stopped allowing anon ftp.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.