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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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