From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 13: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f166.hotmail.com [216.32.181.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D4137B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:59:51 -0700 Received: from 155.45.157.98 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:59:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [155.45.157.98] From: "Kenneth Mays" To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it possible to fetch a tar archive of a -Stable snapshot ? Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:59:51 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2000 19:59:51.0454 (UTC) FILETIME=[2BE7DBE0:01C02274] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I must have missed something as I read this. Was there a tar version of the directories?!? I looked at the files on releng4 and everything is in directories - not tar archives. Are these tar files stored somewhere else now?!? Ken >From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr >To: stable@freebsd.org >Subject: is it possible to fetch a tar archive of a -Stable snapshot ? >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:33:20 +0200 > > > >Hello, > >I've tried to fetch a snapshot, packaged as a tar archive >(fetch >ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.1-20000918-STABLE.tar) > >This used to work some time ago, but does no longer. > >Is the ftp server on relng4 broken, or is this a deliberate policy choice, >in >order to avoid excessive amounts of download ? > > TIA > > TfH > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message