From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 31 2:40:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3EA37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168C943F79 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0VAeeD04009; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10443; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA26769; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:40:26 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E3A52A3.3040305@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:40:35 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimitry Andric Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE ports.tgz file missing? References: <171226215.20030131102611@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <171226215.20030131102611@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dimitry Andric wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I heard from several friends who did FTP installs of 5.0-RELEASE, that > the installer was unable to install the ports collection. So I checked > the various FTP sites, and to my amazement I couldn't find the > ports.tgz file on any of them! > > See for example: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RELEASE/ports/ > ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RELEASE/ports/ > > or any other FreeBSD mirror sites. It is also the case for other > architectures. > > However, on the 5.0-RELEASE i386 install CD I have here, there is such > a ports directory, with a ports.tgz file (and accompanying > CHECKSUM.MD5 and install.sh files). > > Is this a deliberate omission on the FTP servers? > > Cheers, > - -- Fixed on ftp-master, so it should work it's way out to the mirrors over the next few days. I'm not sure if this is an accidental or intended breakage of the release scripts, but many previous releases on FreeBSD have the ports directory in the FTP distro. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message