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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:04:56 -0700
From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is not friendly to the mirror servers
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:16:00PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> I don't know who is the maintainer of ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, and I
> don't know where is the contact address of the host, here it is:

David O'Brien, myself, Peter, and several members of portmgr@ have
access to ftp-master.  Usually, only the portmgr@ folks touch the
packages.

> Several days ago, ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a DIRECTORY, which
> contains latest 4-stable packages, and it should be.  However, today's
> ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a SYMLINK, which goes to
> packages-4.6-release.

I can certainly see where the pain comes from.  I've forwarded this
email to portmgr@ to make sure that the person who did this
understands the ramifications so that it won't happen again.

Sorry for the hassle.

      - Murray

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