Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:10:38 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd alpha packages Message-ID: <20020219211037.GS58005@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0202200659540.26789-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> References: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0202200659540.26789-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:02:58AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > it looks like the packages-4-stable tree has been updated > recently, but i'm now quite confused as to how these things > are working for alpha and i386. > > on i386 (as i was corrected some weeks ago) there is > > packages-4-stable -> (symlink to) packages-4.5-release > > on alpha there is > > packages-4.5-release -> (symlink to) packages-4-stable > > > so they're exactly opposite in behaviour. > > > on alpha the packages-4-stable tree appears to have fixed the problems > with packages being generated into more than the All/ directory, but > there is also a packages-5-current tree there that hasn't been updated > since september 2001.. any reason for this ? > > particularly since packages in the alpha ports tree points at the > packages-5-current tree (unlike i386, where it points at packages-4-stable!) I would like to know who keeps doing this crack-induced work on ftp-master. I can assure you if I had access to it it would not be screwed up like this. But admins/core do not trust me, even though I am held partially responsible for the packages. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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