From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 6 0:25:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E2937B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 00:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id JAA24700; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:25:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14wIv9-0005xX-00 for ; Sun, 06 May 2001 09:25:35 +0200 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 09:25:35 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks in advance for fixing this bug/oversight =) Message-ID: <20010506092535.A22765@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , doc@freebsd.org References: <002c01c0d5b7$90fe24c0$0b00a8c0@spirit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002c01c0d5b7$90fe24c0$0b00a8c0@spirit>; from vecspace@home.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:03:15PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:03:15PM -0400, James Bennett wrote: > I am a big fan of FreeBSD and noticed that ftp.freebsd.org does not have > most of the directories referenced by the ports www page such as > /pub/FreeBSD/branches directory or /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable. > I am unable to grab the port or the package files listed. Connecting to > ftp.freebsd.org and hunting around shows that only packages-4.3-release and > packages-4.3-release seem to exist. > > If you could fix this or forward this harassment to someone who can it'd > be appreciated. =) <...> My suggestion still stands. Why the hell not put up a conspicous apology to the web page explaining that ftp.freebsd.org doesn't work (and as a consequence much of the infrastructure outside of CVS/cvsup for that matter) so people don't have to come and ask one-by-one? Let's face it guys, this has already been very embarassing, it can't get any worse and by explaining to people that we are working on a fix, we are actually regaining face and not look unprofessional in the eyes of the many visitors. After all, a notice can be taken down rather quickly once things are A OK again... -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message