Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:22:15 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! Message-ID: <199709301522.IAA12549@knife.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970930072931.8077A-100000@castor> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970930072931.8077A-100000@castor>
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"Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA> wrote:
> The marking could be a file named after the "volume name" and located at
> the base URL. (ie: ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/volume1)
You'd probably also want to include some versioning info in your "volume
name" (or in conjunction with it). If you're on a CD subscription, you
tend to accumulate a bunch of them, and locating the right one would be
easier if the program telling you to go get one of them told you as
specifically as possible which one to go get. It also applies to FTP
access in that there can be several versions of FreeBSD out there at any
one time - all of them referencing the same directories could make life
difficult...
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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