Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:32:57 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken packages directory/link for amd64 freebsd 5.1 release ? Message-ID: <20040122043257.GG9102@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0401221141180.4689-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0401221141180.4689-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:44:11AM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> it appears that the linking from the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages is
> broken. on ftp-master.us it is a directory rather than a link to
> ../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release. the directory is mainly
> empty apart from a few empty subdirs and a couple of broken
> linked packages.
There is no ../../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release directory at
all. What is inside of the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages directory is
"correct" in that the INDEX file contains only two packages, and those
two packages are present in the All directory (with symlinks to them
from the other directories).
I could be wrong but I think at the time of 5.1 amd64 wasn't a
"Tier-1" architecture. One of the reasons would have been lack of
ports compiling and running well on it yet. :-)
For something like this I'm guessing the portmgr@ folks weren't
heavily involved (if at all) so everything was done by the person
who did the release build and s/he just put everything there. The
only two packages are perl (considered an absolute necessity, it's
the only package in the -mini CD's) and bash (probably the shell of
the main developer :-).
--
Ken Smith
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