Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:49:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-maintainers@wcarchive.cdrom.com, dg@root.com Subject: Re: Proposed reorganization of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <28567.914392190@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:01:20 PST." <199812230501.VAA11527@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> I don't like the last two very much. We have a well-defined meaning > for the word "release" and that's the official releases. Or is it > necessary to somehow have all the "uname -r" name show up under the > same directory for the install floppies to work? Exactly - at least for the post-release versions. If you update and run /stand/sysinstall on a -current or -stable machine, it will look for 2.2.8-STABLE or 3.0-CURRENT as the release string under which to grab packages, etc. > Instead of this, how about we create one more toplevel "ports" where > all the ports/packages/distfiles stuff will go. Links will be made > from other places if necessary (including the toplevel "distfiles"). > Something like: I could live with that, yeah. > There are many mirrors who don't have enough space for packages and/or > distfiles, it will be easier for them to decide which ones to delete Right, understood. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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