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Subject: Proposed reorganization of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:37:33 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I'll try to make this brief. The situation as we currently see it
today is this:

2.2.7-RELEASE           alpha                   packages-3.0
2.2.8-RELEASE           development             packages-current
2.2.8-STABLE            distfiles               packages-current-aout
3.0-CURRENT             docs                    packages-stable
3.0-RELEASE             incoming                ports
CERT                    index.html              ports-3.0
CTM                     ls-lR.gz                ports-current
CVSup                   mailing-lists           ports-stable
FreeBSD-CVS             newsletter              tools
FreeBSD-current         packages                updates
FreeBSD-stable          packages-2.2.7
README                  packages-2.2.8

Finding this increasingly rather cluttered, I'd like to propose
that we move to something more like this:

README.TXT
index.html
releases/
	README.TXT
	index.html
	2.2.7-RELEASE/
	2.2.8-RELEASE/
	3.0-RELEASE/
		README.TXT
		index.html
		axp/
		x86/
	2.2.8-STABLE -> stable
	3.0-CURRENT -> current
	current/
		README.TXT
		index.html
		ports
		packages
		src
	stable/
		README.TXT
		index.html
		ports
		packages
		src

doc/
	index.html
	INSTALL.TXT
	README.TXT
	HARDWARE.TXT
	UPGRADE.TXT
	etc...

And that would be it for the top-level directory structure.  The only
part of this I have any reservations about myself is splitting
3.0-RELEASE into architecture subdirs, but I really don't see how we
can get around that step without yuck-ifying our hierarchy even more
as FreeBSD gets ported to other architectures (hey, they said it would
never happen at all and now we run on the AXP - think towards the
future! :).

The index.html files I can also live without, but again, I'm think of
how many people may be indexing the site these days and how they'll
want to view it in the future.

Comments?

- Jordan

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