From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 24 17:45:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ctlsgg01.ctlsg.creaf.com (ctlsgg01.ctlsg.creaf.com [203.127.170.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395F837B424 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from twchan@singnet.com.sg) Received: from c000162a-gero.singnet.com.sg ([198.95.44.135]) by ctlsgg02.ctlsg.creaf.com (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.6a) with ESMTP id 2001042508453382:462 ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:45:33 +0800 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010425084036.00a18cd0@pop.singnet.com.sg> X-Sender: twchan@pop.singnet.com.sg X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:45:27 +0800 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Chan Tur Wei Subject: Re: Ports collection and FTP site?? In-Reply-To: <3AE5A60B.FD6442C9@boothcreek.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on CTLSGG02/CTLSG/CTL/Creative(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 04/25/2001 08:45:34 AM, Serialize by Router on CTLSGG01/CTLSG/CTL/Creaf(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 04/25/2001 08:45:37 AM, Serialize complete at 04/25/2001 08:45:37 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Connected to ftp.freebsd.org. 220 usw4.freebsd.org FTP server (Version DG-4.1.73 983302105) ready. Name (ftp.freebsd.org:twchan): ftp 530-Sorry, but there are too many users logged into this machine now. 530-The maximum limit is 400 while we're on temporary hardware, 530-ftp.freesoftware.com (AKA the old ftp.freebsd.org) is off the net 530-for now and there is unfortunately no ETA for its return. 530- 530-Please try back in a few minutes, or try the alternate servers at: 530- 530- ftp://usw1.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ 530- ftp://usw4.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ 530- 530-They are sharing the same contents as this one. 530-My apologies for the inconvenience! -jkh 530- If you'd been following -stable, you'd have read about how recently ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freesoftware.com) was down - either actually down as the above message implies, or some network bandwidth congestion somewhere. Somebody put up a temporary ftp.freebsd.org so that 4.3-RELEASE could be served to the world; I guess the temporary one didn't put the distfiles and ports and stuff. Regards -T.W.Chan- At 4/25/01 12:12 AM, you wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message