Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site Message-ID: <200307221640.h6MGeDXN074176@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/54738; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:35:53 +0200 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:30:11AM -0700, Ken Smith wrote: > > > > You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ? > > > > They're the same thing: > > ftp-master 4 % ls -ld FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable branches > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 17 Sep 6 2001 FreeBSD-current@ -> branches/-current > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 19 Sep 6 2001 FreeBSD-stable@ -> branches/4.0-stable > drwxrwxr-x 6 archive archive 512 Apr 24 2000 branches/ > ftp-master 5 % > > If that causes more messes I can help clean them up. We're hoping to do this > removal because the support for it among the mirror sites is already flakey. > Many of the mirror sites don't carry branches/ at all. One of the machines > that makes up ftp.freebsd.org only carries a few of the things that are in > the branches/-current. > But what about ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/ ? They will also stop to provide direct access to -CURRENT/-STABLE source via FTP? Does it mean that CVSweb will be the only way to get some -CURRENT/-STABLE source files? Marc
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