From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Apr 21 16: 4:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBAAF37B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3LN4a417402; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:04:36 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:04:39 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on 4.3-RELEASE on "ftp.freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20010421134015J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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