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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: freebsd alpha packages
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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

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