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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
To:        FREEBSD-HUBS-L <freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org>, FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Who is responsible for /pub/FreeBSD/incoming ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970406122711.13146G-100000@alpha.risc.org>

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    I noticed there is a *lot* of junk in the incoming directory.
Just a quick scan of my mirror suggests that the following files
should probably not be given the privilege of residing within the
FreeBSD distribution tree.  :)

    Is there any reason why files older than, say, 6 months need to be
kept around?  Zero-length or incomplete files should be deleted as
well (I found a bunch of truncated tar files).  The .tgz files with a
timestamp of Dec 19 21:14 and onwards appear to be Debian Linux
packages (.deb files).  Surely those don't belong in here?  :)

-r--r--r--   1 root     root           0 Jan 16 16:39 3DDUKE13.ZIP
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     5910927 Jan  9 12:55 3dduke13.zip
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      920674 Jan 25 19:16 AlienSkin.zip
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      772210 Nov 27 21:02 CHIP1.EXE
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       92870 Jan 16 09:41 COMMAND.COM
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       45492 Jan 16 09:37 DRVSPACE.BIN
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       71287 Jan 16 09:39 DRVSPACE1.BIN
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       59128 Jan 16 09:32 FDISK.EXE
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       40135 Jan 16 09:32 FORMAT.COM
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     2151028 Feb 21 01:09 GitS-Track01-MakingOfCyborg.mp2
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      223148 Jan 16 09:31 IO.SYS
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       25473 Jan 16 09:29 MSCDEX.EXE
-r--r--r--   1 root     root           9 Jan 16 09:29 MSDOS.SYS
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       80614 Mar 24 20:57 TEST3A.MP3
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        3139 Jul 29  1996 afterstep-0.98b18.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        4524 Mar 22  1996 amanda-2.2.6.5.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        1778 Feb 22 06:38 angband-2.8.0-port.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      934912 Mar  4 21:40 bottomline.mp3
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     12937073 Mar  6 23:25 crosstree-1.2p1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      782587 Dec 19 21:14 devel.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     48727969 Dec 19 21:24 devel1.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      270577 Dec 19 21:14 doc.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     11785677 Dec 19 21:15 editors.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      389616 Dec 19 21:15 electron.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     9251039 Dec 19 21:15 games.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     6228156 Dec 19 21:16 graphics.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     1442145 Apr 10  1996 kaffe-0.3-port.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          49 Aug  2  1996 kaffe-0.5p2.README
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      206802 Aug  2  1996 kaffe-0.5p2.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        4136 Nov 23 13:29 kaffe.0.6.0.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        4273 Jan  7 04:17 kaffe.0.7.0-port.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        4423 Jan 23 15:58 kaffe.0.71.port.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        2906 Feb 15 17:36 kaffe0.80.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     1086589 Jan 16 10:50 kernel
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     1156532 Jan 25 19:31 kptgoo.zip
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     4422965 Dec 19 21:17 mail.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     4615815 Dec 19 21:18 math.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     5977508 Dec 19 21:18 misc.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     8747303 Dec 19 21:18 net.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     1946567 Dec 19 21:19 news.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      728820 Mar 23  1996 pine-3.92.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       14363 Jun 15  1996 pine-3.94.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          11 Jan 28 07:56 pleasedeleteme
-r--r--r--   1 root     root           0 Dec 19 10:48 put
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     1562951 Dec 19 21:19 shells.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     16087040 Mar 15 04:45 si.tar
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        1401 Apr  5  1996 socks5-beta-0.12.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        1263 Apr  5  1996 socks5.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      975061 Dec 19 21:19 sound.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root      787762 Jul  6  1996 stronghold-1.2.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     5687431 Dec 19 21:20 tex.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     7324834 Dec 19 21:20 text.tgz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root           0 Dec 19 10:44 tk-4.1p1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        3084 Feb 18  1996 underg.ans
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     22174500 Dec 19 21:21 x11.tgz

--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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