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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:36:43 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   inconsistencies in alpha packages ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0111301533580.5759-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>

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Hi,

can anyone enlighten me as to how alpha packages are put
together ?  they look quite different to the i386 packages
tree.

e.g

there is no 4.4 release tree - it points directly at
packages-4-stable.

the packages-5-current tree has a Latest directory made
up of symlinks into the All directory

the packages-4-stable has a Latest directory which is
approximately the same size as the All directory ?

since each tree is about 1.5G in size, does this mean that
we're forced to download an extra 1.5G each time the
tree is updated (for no reason?) or am i missing something?

-rw-r--r--    1 mirror   mirror      36486 Apr 23  2001 All/3dc-0.8.1.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 mirror   mirror      36486 Apr 23  2001 Latest/3dc.tgz

regards,

-jason


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