From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Nov 29 22:16:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42ACB37B416 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAU6GHO29672 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:16:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:16:23 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistencies in alpha packages ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, jason andrade wrote: > 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 this is much worse than i thought. it appears *every* directory in the packages-4-stable for alpha has identical files to All rather than symlinks as other packages trees have. can someone please fix this on ftp-master. it's severely broken IMHO and leading to needless disk space being used on mirrors i'd assume. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message