Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:07:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken packages directory/link for amd64 freebsd 5.1 release ? Message-ID: <20040122230752.GA75266@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040122043257.GG9102@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0401221141180.4689-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20040122043257.GG9102@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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--3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:32:57PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:44:11AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: >=20 > > it appears that the linking from the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages is > > broken. on ftp-master.us it is a directory rather than a link to > > ../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release. the directory is mainly > > empty apart from a few empty subdirs and a couple of broken > > linked packages. >=20 > There is no ../../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release directory at > all. What is inside of the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages directory is > "correct" in that the INDEX file contains only two packages, and those > two packages are present in the All directory (with symlinks to them > from the other directories). >=20 > I could be wrong but I think at the time of 5.1 amd64 wasn't a > "Tier-1" architecture. One of the reasons would have been lack of > ports compiling and running well on it yet. :-) >=20 > For something like this I'm guessing the portmgr@ folks weren't > heavily involved (if at all) so everything was done by the person > who did the release build and s/he just put everything there. The > only two packages are perl (considered an absolute necessity, it's > the only package in the -mini CD's) and bash (probably the shell of > the main developer :-). I think you're right here. At the time we didn't even have amd64 package building machines. Kris --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEFfIWry0BWjoQKURAjmfAKD34qsTKCTXXys+r2yBJ5iDmWMHEACfYFvl ubAz4COQ4PTrwHIU+QEcedw= =fNE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--
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