From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 17 16:16:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA14580 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from bubble.didi.com (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA14479; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@bubble.didi.com) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA02056; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710172314.QAA02056@bubble.didi.com> To: freebsd-mirror@sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp CC: hubs@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199710171706.NAA26311@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> (message from Garrett Wollman on Sat, 18 Oct 1997 02:31:43 +0900 (JST)) Subject: Re: Can anyone educate me on the packages directories? From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk packages-stable is where the up-to-date packages for 2.2-stable are kept; packages-2.2.5 is what is going into the 2.2.5 CD. * 1) What's packages-stable got that packages-2.2.5 doesn't? So, to answer your question: stuff that can't be put on the CD. (Also, the update of packages-stable is stopped in the last couple of weeks while I build the 2.2.5 packages, but it will start again soon.) * 2) I thought the ports crew had dropped support for -current, so how * come there's still a packages-current? These are old packages. David O'Brien is working on building new ones. You can delete these on your system safely now, but they may start getting updated again. * If I could lose just two of these, I might have enough space left on * my drive for the ports distfiles, which I really ought to be * distributing (because of the GPL). I thought you just needed to point the user to the "real" source (ftp.freebsd.org will do) as long as they are distributing it. Satoshi