Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 04:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site Message-ID: <200307221130.h6MBUBww008980@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/54738; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:24:27 -0400 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:40:45AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:13:28PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > >Description: > > We want to remove the branches/ section of the FTP site. This > > patch, removes all references to that from the Handbook that I > > could find. > > [...] > > You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ? > They're the same thing: ftp-master 4 % ls -ld FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable branches lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 17 Sep 6 2001 FreeBSD-current@ -> branches/-current lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 19 Sep 6 2001 FreeBSD-stable@ -> branches/4.0-stable drwxrwxr-x 6 archive archive 512 Apr 24 2000 branches/ ftp-master 5 % If that causes more messes I can help clean them up. We're hoping to do this removal because the support for it among the mirror sites is already flakey. Many of the mirror sites don't carry branches/ at all. One of the machines that makes up ftp.freebsd.org only carries a few of the things that are in the branches/-current. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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