From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 6 13:11:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61BB37B401 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f96KBZM67104 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD3B3808; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: James Halstead , tlambert2@mindspring.com, Kris Kennaway , Nate Williams , Lyndon Nerenberg , Bernd Walter , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: <200110061956.f96JuHn93490@earth.backplane.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 13:11:35 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011006201135.3BD3B3808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > In regards to UUCP as a port, I think it's a good idea. There is > nothing preventing us from including the dist files in the CD > distribution so network connectivity is not needed for someone to > install it. > > If someone else puts together the port I would be happy to provide > disk space & net access for the fetch. I have good network > connectivity (a T1), not that I expect a uucp port would actually > require much in the way of bandwidth. The 'cpdup' port only > generates 159 downloads a month and I expect a 'uucp' port > generate much lower numbers, maybe 10 a month. FYI, any committer can use the public_distfiles mechanism... peter@freefall[1:07pm]~/public_distfiles-101> ls hexpert-2.4.1.tar.gz hexpert-2.4.tar.gz These get automatically replicated to every ftp mirror: peter@ftp-master[1:09pm]~-111> ls /pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/peter hexpert-2.4.1.tar.gz hexpert-2.4.tar.gz peter@overcee[1:09pm]~-103> ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/peter/ ftp> dir 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 1006 1006 6736 Apr 8 20:02 hexpert-2.4.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 1006 1006 6741 Mar 10 2001 hexpert-2.4.tar.gz ... This replication happens within a few hours. People submitting ports should be able to arrange with the person committing it to use this if needed. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message