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IMHO, if a site claim to be a mirror, they should follow the structure of
the original site. For FreeBSD ftp mirrors, that means /pub/FreeBSD etc.
If they provide a /FreeBSD that one should be a link to /pub/FreeBSD and so
on.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>wrote:

> It has come to my attention that a lot of FTP mirrors have their
> FreeBSD data under /FreeBSD instead of /pub/FreeBSD.
>
> Which version is recommended and used to create PACKAGESITE from
> PACKAGEROOT?
>
> Regards
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> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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Torfinn