From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 12:31:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17729 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17724 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from father.ludd.luth.se (pantzer@father.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.18]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17212; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:31:27 +0100 Received: from localhost (pantzer@localhost) by father.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id VAA18861; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:31:28 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:31:27 +0100 (MET) From: Mattias Pantzare To: Dean Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP site In-Reply-To: <32F89C6C.6944@oec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is it too much to ask to have a normal ftp site, with the source distributions > organized by category, with the original source tar file and a patch file for BSD? Normal?? It is a very normal file tree. (You ar refering to that, not the site) > I found the source files in distributions, but I'm not sure if they contain the BSD > patches or not. Not to mention the annoyance factor of having a single directory with > 700 files. What patches? There are no patches. But there are a CVS tree that you can use to get updates. Take a look att www.freebsd.org, in the hanbook you will find there. Where did you find that single directory with 700 files? The source dirs ar not built that way, and you can get parts of the source tree by just adding .tar to the directory that you want to get. > FTP sites have followed a general format for 20 years. Please don't try to "improve" > things by breaking them. What format? What FTP sites? I think that it is a very good file tree.