Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 06:18:29 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: "mirrors@tds.net" <mirrors@tds.net> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wierd symlink in i386/5.4-RC3 Message-ID: <20050606131829.GA67939@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506060808580.27577-100000@meltdown.workpc.tds.net> References: <20050606095744.GN70125@droso.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506060808580.27577-100000@meltdown.workpc.tds.net>
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:11:28AM -0500, mirrors@tds.net wrote: > > Question, > > I noticed a symlink from 5.4-RC3 to . in this Directory: > > /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RC3/ Yes, you will find such a symlink in every release directory. This is for the convenience of users doing FTP installations with sysinstall. I believe that at one point (maybe still works like this) sysinstall asked for the FTP installation directory, and the user is supposed to enter ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386. sysinstall automatically knows the release name from the boot disk. But if you put ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RC3 then it will try ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RC3/5.4-RC3 and this will work due to the symlink. There would be two ways to fix this - with either 10 lines of string processing code in sysinstall or by adding the symlinks. It's just a one line change to the makefile to generate those symlinks so that was the solution chosen. > This was causing MSN search index daemon to eat up one of my http > threads... robots.txt I guess. - Murray
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