Package with no upstream (ftp)

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Jul 18 18:05:06 UTC 2012


Once upon a time, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> said:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:55:55 -0400
> David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Or forget the netkit source.  I'd like to see ftp(1) replaced with the
> > NetBSD ftp client:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/
> 
> But we already have a yet nicer FTP client, lftp. Really not point in
> tinkering with the plain FTP this way, it seems to me.

Yeah, keep plain-old "ftp" as simple as possible.  lftp is great, but it
has more dependencies, and I have had occasion when I needed to fall
back to the old standby.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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