Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 00:20:31 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20010504002030.U25642@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100300b717865e0dc1@[10.0.1.2]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:20:29AM %2B0200 References: <200105032146.OAA02712@usr05.primenet.com> <p05100300b717865e0dc1@[10.0.1.2]>
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[Trim, trim, trim *hum* ] On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:20:29AM +0200, a little birdie told me that Brad Knowles remarked > At 9:45 PM +0000 5/3/01, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > As someone who uses FreeBSD in a business context, and has off > > and on since 1993, it is alarming to go out and try to grab a > > distribution, only to find out that it's not where you expected > > it to be. > > Surely it's on the mirrors, yes? > > > It's also extremely alarming to find out that the official > > mirrors have mirrored the disappearance. > > Really? This is the first I had heard of this. Could you elaborate? As a matter of fact, this has hit me. CVSup isn't on what is now referred to as 'ftp.freebsd.org'. To install it from ports, I had to fiddle around and discover that it DOES exist on ftp2, and frob the Makefile. pkg_add would have likely required me to find and download the package file manually, or frob some arguments to it that I can never quite manage to understand. In this case, part of the problem was that CVSup's 'master site' is a subtree of the pub/FreeBSD tree in general, and partly because the only 'backup' is the distfiles/ repository (which, BTW, doesn't seem to exist with any consistency on that which is now referred to as ftp.freebsd.org). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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