Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:56:04 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: asami@freebsd.org Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <20010507125604P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Guys, During the transition to ftp-master from ftp.freesoftware.com, I've been going through our mountain of bits in an effort to clean it up and have run into a number of items which I dare not delete myself but still have to question the value of. Does anyone have any *real* use at any of the following directories? No, let me rephrase that, does anyone absolutely *need* any of the following directories and not just want to keep it around on the premise that some obscure group of religious cultists might someday want it? Programmers are pack-rats by nature, and back when we were happily ensconced on one big super-server where bits and bandwidth were essentially free, it didn't really matter so much and we were free to stick just about any old thing there and assume that only people who wanted it would mirror it. Well, it's a new world and now we're looking at ftp.freebsd.org becoming a set of round-robin DNS entries, something which just isn't going to happen very easily when being a "full and complete archive" requires that you mirror over 56GBytes of cruft. In honor of the tech down-turn, I say it's time we imposed some austerity measures of our own and "right sized" our bits. :-) Anyway, here they are, each with my "justification" in brackets and with each obviously open to interpretation and debate. /archive/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/ packages-4-stable [stale] packages-stable [point to packages-4.3-release?] /archive/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 packages-2.2-stable [too old] packages-2.2.8 [too old] packages-3-stable [too old] packages-3.0-aout [too old] packages-3.4-release [too old] packages-4.0-release [too old] packages-4.1-release [too old] /archive/pub/FreeBSD/development XF86336-4.1-release.alpha [too old] axp [too old] misc [too old] ports [old and redundant] Comments please, thanks. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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