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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here?
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
> 
>  * 		 and I think we have established now that this won't
>  * work due to the configuration of some (many?)  sites.
> 
> I'm not sure, how many ftp sites out there have this configuration?

I was trying to check ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de, but they had a head
crash lately and the archive not quite up to date currently.The french
mirror (ftp.ibp.fr) does not follow the links.  I tried some of the
other european sites but it's not easy to find symlinks of the form
<dir>/<file> -> <some/place> (<dir1>/<file> -> <dir1>/<dir2>/<file> is
easy to find, but getting <dir1>.tar.gz to look for tar's configuration
tends to create huge tar files ...).  Probably you're right, we should
just use the links.

> I am strongly against /usr/distfiles.  We already have enough
> directories under /usr, and distfiles/ clearly belongs to /usr/ports.
> Plus, this doesn't have to do anything with the problem at hand!

Sure; I just thought it would be easier to see the connection between
ports/ and a separate distfiles/ on the ftp archives and the user's disk
(if we do it that way).  Sorry for the confusion.

tg