From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 16:30:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rad3.1stup.com (rad3.1stup.com [209.143.242.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A40437B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager (ip41.jackson10.ms.pub-ip.psi.net [38.36.61.41]) by rad3.1stup.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id e8JNTl529629; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:29:48 -0700 Message-ID: <006e01c02291$80c3ece0$293d2426@siteplus.net> From: "Jim Weeks" To: "Kenneth Mays" , , References: Subject: Re: is it possible to fetch a tar archive of a -Stable snapshot ? Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:29:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 .tar --------------------------- Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Mays" To: ; 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