Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 18:46:32 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Why multiple distfiles directories on ftp.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <199611070746.SAA09872@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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I'm about to re-organise and upgrade the FreeBSD mirror I maintain
({ftp,sup}.au.freebsd.org), and when checking the space requirements
I see that there are two large distfiles directories. One is
/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles (> 660MB), and the other is
/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/distfiles (> 490MB).
It seems that the latter is (with a very small number of exceptions)
a subset of the former. Is there a good reason for having so much of
this duplicated?
I keep the former in sync with ftp mirroring, and the latter with sup.
I presume that the latter will no longer be available anyway when I
switch over to cvsup (and I'll be providing cvsup.au.freebsd.org when
that is done).
David
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