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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site
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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