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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:19:19 -0800
From:      Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Changing ISO filenames
Message-ID:  <a333b2be0912221019r4e25cf10n4ac6da919f4f3948@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1261407011.56806.17.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
References:  <1261407011.56806.17.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> wrote:

>
> People who collect ISO images from more than just the FreeBSD Project
> have been mentioning it would be nice if "FreeBSD" was part of the
> filenames for a while now.  I just committed a change to head that will
> add "FreeBSD-" to the beginning of the filenames.  So for example
>
>        9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
>
> becomes
>
>        FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
>
> As part of the commit I set a 1-week MFC timer and at that point I will
> MFC the change to all of the branches we currently target for the
> Monthly Snapshots (so all the way back to stable/6).  That way the
> filenames will be consistent for all the images generated for the
> January 2010 Monthly Snapshots.
>
> --
>                                                Ken Smith
> - From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@buffalo.edu
>  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
>                      - Theodore Geisel |
>
>

I liked this change ( appending FreeBSD- in front .iso file names ) very
much because always I was adding this to downloaded file names .
This change will allow also inclusion of these file names in internet search
lists .


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk



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