Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 04:12:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), jessemonroy@email.com, jessem@livecam.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <200105040412.VAA20118@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100300b717865e0dc1@[10.0.1.2]> from "Brad Knowles" at May 04, 2001 12:20:29 AM
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> > I also believe that this is a legitimate topic for -hackers, > > since code which can not be obtained, can not be the subject > > of active developement. > > There I have to disagree. This subject is applicable to all of > FreeBSD as it is to any one particular mailing list, and therefore > the most suitable mailing list for this discussion is -chat. Most people do not subscribe to chat. The most applicable mailing list is probably the one with the largest subscribership... > > As someone who uses FreeBSD in a business context, and has off > > and on since 1993, it is alarming to go out and try to grab a > > distribution, only to find out that it's not where you expected > > it to be. > > Surely it's on the mirrors, yes? No, it's not. > > It's also extremely alarming to find out that the official > > mirrors have mirrored the disappearance. > > Really? This is the first I had heard of this. Could you elaborate? See other posting. > > I personally only found out as a result of attempting to build > > a release locally, only to have it fail to retrieve two of the > > 35 ports distribution files needed to perform that operation. > > > > When this happened, it seriously underscored the degree to which > > the FreeBSD project depends on good faith effort by agencies not > > under the projects direct control (as Linux depends on the good > > faith and continued existance of Linus and those lieutenants who > > hold the keys to the non-repository maintained source tree). > > It would seem to me that this would be precisely the sort of > thing that would be most resistant to having the central repository > disappear (or otherwise be unavailable). Could you help me > understand how this sort of thing could happen, and how the problem > might be addressed? This has to do with programs -- with specific versions -- on which release tagged builds depend. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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