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Subject: Re: Proposed reorganization of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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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

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