Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jason@dstc.edu.au Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new dist area ? Message-ID: <199901240420.UAA16582@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au>
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In article <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au>,
jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current
>
> personally i think it's a mistake to have a directory name like
> -current, but i'm not a maintainer..
I'd have to agree with you about that.
> i'm getting a little frustated at changes with no warnings. am i not
> on a list somewhere where perhaps someone is sending out all the
> changes that are occuring ?
It was announced on the FreeBSD-hubs list. Didn't you see it?
> i'm using a combination of `mirror' (fmirror doesn't compile yet on
> solaris 2.6.. looking into it. sigh) and CVSup and one or both would
> appear to be broken currently by structural changes.
>
> are hard links used extensively in the archive ? another case for
> either using rsyncd which allows your downstream mirrors to save
> on disk by mirroring hardlinks, or for running nicolai langfeldt's
> (sp?) md5 checksum hard linking space saver.
CVSup preserves hard links.
John
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