Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:02:15 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD-Archive site Message-ID: <20030928050215.GA15012@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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We have assembled as much as we can find as far as old releases go. At the moment it is almost 130Gb for everything we've found so far. On my site I set it up to be /pub/FreeBSD-Archive but it could be made part of /pub/FreeBSD if you wanted to, everything is down inside a directory named "old-releases". For any of the releases we could find the package set for it is down inside of the release directory itself instead of being a separate directory tree. This is what we have so far [ note it includes "current" releases too, since they shouldn't be changing at this point ... ]: old-releases/alpha: 3.4-RELEASE/ 4.4-RELEASE/ 4.6.2-RELEASE/ 5.0-RELEASE/ 4.2-RELEASE/ 4.5-RELEASE/ 4.7-RELEASE/ 5.1-RELEASE/ 4.3-RELEASE/ 4.6-RELEASE/ 4.8-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ old-releases/amd64: 5.1-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ old-releases/i386: 2.0.5-RELEASE/ 3.1-RELEASE/ 4.3-RELEASE/ 2.1.5-RELEASE/ 3.2-RELEASE/ 4.4-RELEASE/ 2.1.7-RELEASE/ 3.3-RELEASE/ 4.5-RELEASE/ 2.1.7.1-RELEASE/ 3.4-RELEASE/ 4.6-RELEASE/ 2.2.2-RELEASE/ 3.5-RELEASE/ 4.6.2-RELEASE/ 2.2.5-RELEASE/ 3.5.1-RELEASE/ 4.7-RELEASE/ 2.2.6-RELEASE/ 4.0-RELEASE/ 4.8-RELEASE/ 2.2.7-RELEASE/ 4.1-RELEASE/ 5.0-RELEASE/ 2.2.8-RELEASE/ 4.1.1-RELEASE/ 5.1-RELEASE/ 3.0-RELEASE/ 4.2-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ old-releases/ia64: 5.0-RELEASE/ 5.1-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ old-releases/pc98: 5.0-RELEASE/ 5.1-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ README.TXT old-releases/sparc64: 5.0-RELEASE/ 5.1-RELEASE/ ISO-IMAGES/ Anyone else interested in picking these up? It would be one of those "download once" type things - no need to sync on a routine basis. If we find new stuff for what is there now we can just send a note to hubs@ letting people know. Once you have it you could maintain it yourself by just copying the current releases into it shortly before they get removed from ftp-master. If holding older releases in this fashion is done on "enough" sites it might have an effect on the main site. We haven't circulated this idea much because whether it is possible will depend on how many sites start to carry these older releases. But maybe if "enough" sites pick up the archive site it won't be as important for the main site to keep as many full releases on it. Users need a reasonable amount of time to upgrade from these older releases - some sites may still be using 4.7 at this point because it's not all that old and therefore may still want to get at the packages-4.7-release stuff. If there are several places around the net these packages are available that might be sufficient for these sites that tend to lag a bit behind. If you want to poke at the site and see what's there it is accessible at "ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/FreeBSD-Archive", though if you are coming from a non-EDU site you might need some patience getting in - we're usually at our limit of 50 for that. We're almost never at the separate limit of 50 for EDU sites. If you want to download the site it's the FreeBSD-Archive rsync module on both ftp.cse.buffalo.edu and ftp-master.us.freebsd.org. If you want to use FTP-based tools then it's just ftp.cse.buffalo.edu, I don't have ftp-master.us.freebsd.org set up to allow FTP right now. Sorry, no cvsup access (yet?). -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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