From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 24 9:13:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from free.deardorff.org (adsl-63-195-128-146.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [63.195.128.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5613A37B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@boothcreek.com) Received: from boothcreek.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by free.deardorff.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02119; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@boothcreek.com) Message-ID: <3AE5A60B.FD6442C9@boothcreek.com> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:12:59 -0700 From: Scott Deardorff Organization: Booth Creek Ski Holdings, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports collection and FTP site?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I actually wasn't able to find any distfiles. and also no previous releases in particular I was trying to get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/steve/webcopy-0.98b7.tar.gz It also looks like all of the download links have been removed to download the makefiles which will then get the distfiles, make any FreeBSD specific patches and and do the build. In general it looks like the whole FTP site has changed, with a lot of things removed that were previously there, and consequently very useful to me. It appears that you are no longer supporting the source files/patches that these downloads bring? There also doesn't appear to be any links to anything from previous releases. I was just wondering if there was a good reason for this other than your recent purchase by Wind River and change of policy. Thanks for your response, -Scott "Thomas (Matt) Barton" wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Scott Deardorff wrote: > > > I was trying to download some distfiles and they appear to no longer > > be there. > > > > WAZUP?? > > I would imagine that it would be helpful if you mentioned which ports you > were having problems retrieving? > > Have you updated your ports tree? Some of the old distfiles may not be > available. > > -- > > Matt Barton matt@fear.net > Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/ -- Scott Deardorff - scott@boothcreek.com - http://www.deardorff.org/scott E-Business Manager Booth Creek Ski Holdings ----Voice: (530) 550-1671 Fax: (530) 400-6411 ICQ: 4665706---- In the dark of the moon, we have our dreams to light the path. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message