Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:29:44 -0400 From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net> To: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com>, <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is it possible to fetch a tar archive of a -Stable snapshot ? Message-ID: <006e01c02291$80c3ece0$293d2426@siteplus.net> References: <LAW2-F166Viaaskjeo400003604@hotmail.com>
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He is talking about this. This messages is from README on ftp.cdrom.com --------------------------- Welcome to wcarchive.cdrom.com! This ftp server supports automatic tar support. To get a directory as a tar file, say: get <dir>.tar --------------------------- Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> To: <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:59 PM Subject: Re: is it possible to fetch a tar archive of a -Stable snapshot ? > > 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.ta r) > > > >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 ? ________________________________________________________ 1stUp.com - Free the Web Get your free Internet access at http://www.1stUp.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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