From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Dec 22 11:02:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03774 for freebsd-hubs-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passion.icparc.ic.ac.uk (passion.icparc.ic.ac.uk [155.198.179.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03752 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lmjm@icparc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from ham.icparc.ic.ac.uk ([155.198.177.28] helo=icparc.ic.ac.uk) by passion.icparc.ic.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zsX4L-0007az-00; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:02:09 +0000 Message-ID: <367FECB1.15430C91@icparc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:02:09 +0000 From: Lee McLoughlin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-maintainers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Proposed reorganization of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD References: <81498.914350109@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Could I make one suggestion, please? Once the new layout is decided upon could you write a shell script to move from the old layout to the new layout? I realise that it is a bit of extra work to do when you're probably already busy but it would make life considerably easier for the mirror sites. Lee Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > In this new structure where would fit what used to be packages-2.2.7, > > packages-2.2.8 and packages-3.0 ? > > They would live under the release dirs or, in the case of a "branch" > set, under the branch subdirs. I'll paste in a current outline of the > proposed changes below, just in case this is confusing. > > > What about the snapshots ? There will be a snapshots/ directory or it will > > be under the current/, stable/ or releases/ directories ? > > Snapshots won't be distributed from ftp.cdrom.com anymore unless > there's something special about one of them. I want to leave this to > the current.freebsd.org/releng22.freebsd.org/??? servers which are > dedicated to the purpose. If a snapshot ever does appear on ftp.cdrom.com, > it will be under snapshot/ at the top level. > > > Is there a way to organize that so we can keep only ONE copy of XFree > > for each version of FreeBSD (2.2.x and 3.x) ? For me the old symbolic link > > Nope! Different binary types, for one thing, and some special > customizations which only we make for another. > > > And last, where will be the commerce and xperimnt ? That is also using a > > considerable amount of space, and there aren't much users that download > > those from here. > > They will live under the branch trees and be pointed at by the various > releases that wish to do so. > > Anyway, here's the latest revision of my proposed reorg: > > README.TXT > index.html > releases/ > README.TXT > index.html > 2.2.7-RELEASE/ > > 2.2.8-RELEASE/ > > 3.0-RELEASE/ > > 3.0.1-RELEASE/ > README.TXT > index.html > axp/ > x86/ > 2.2.8-STABLE -> ../2.2-branch > 3.0-CURRENT -> ../3.0-branch > 3.0-branch/ > README.TXT > index.html > ports > packages > src > commerce > xperimnt > 2.2-branch/ > README.TXT > index.html > ports > packages > src > commerce > xperimnt > doc/ > ... > > distfiles/ > .. distfiles .. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8432 South Kensington, London. SW7 2AZ. UK. Email: lmjm@icparc.ic.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message