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Date:      Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:04:39 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up on 4.3-RELEASE on "ftp.freebsd.org"
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0104220901440.7520-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010421134015J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> More importantly, it also means that for right now, older releases are
> not on the site and that the pub/FreeBSD directory also contains the
> -stable snapshots.  This means that you should NOT simply blindly
> mirror ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ with the delete option on
> (in which case you'll lose all the older releases) or fail to exclude
> the snapshots directory unless you actually want all those snapshots
> on your mirror.

it also means that you'll find the entire 1.X gigabyte package tree is
now directly in this directory - previously it was a pointer to another
area ports/i386/packages-4-stable/

if you are mirroring 4.3-RELEASE, be prepared for a release that is
about 6 times larger than normal i assume.

i'm not sure if 4.3 release has got a snapshot of packages like previous
releases (e.g packages-4.3-release) or if it will stay with linking to
packages-4-stable (much better disk space usage IMHO).

-jason


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