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From: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: 4.5-RC1 / x86 available on ftp-master
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0201101308320.1365-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>; from jason@dstc.edu.au on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:11:05PM +1000
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:11:05PM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> 
> one thing that seems broken is that there is an absolute link
> for the packages tree.  this would break on a number of mirrors
> and the convention should be to keep this relative.
> 
> packages -> /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.5-release
> 
> should instead be
> 
> ln -s ../../../ports/i386/packages-4.5-release packages

I'm missing something obvious.  I'd be happy to fix the problem
if only I knew where it was.

$ hostname
ftp-master.freebsd.org
$ pwd
/archive/pub/FreeBSD
$ ls -ld packages
ls: packages: No such file or directory
$ cd ports
$ ls -ld packages
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  13 Apr 29  2001 packages -> i386/packages
$ cd i386/
$ ls -ld packages
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  15 Apr 29  2001 packages -> packages-stable
$ ls -ld packages-stable
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  17 Apr 29  2001 packages-stable -> packages-4-stable
$ ls -ld packages-4-stable
drwxrwxr-x  74 asami  archive  1536 Jan  9 06:17 packages-4-stable

-steve

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