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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:04:38 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, www@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Ulf Vedenbrant <uffe@swip.net>
Subject:   Re: [uffe@swip.net: Re: ports tree unstable now]
Message-ID:  <19980824140438.B2051@panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199808240903.CAA08341@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 02:03:33AM -0700
References:  <199808240903.CAA08341@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On 1998-08-24 02:03:33 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> This might be the wrong way to report an eventual bug.
> But..;-)
> When browsing for example on
> 
> http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ports/archivers.html
> 
> You might want to ftp from 
> 
> ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/archivers/arc.tar
> 
> But you get 
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/archivers/arc.tar
> 
> I.e the ".uk." is missing in the link.
> 
> Is this by design?

Sorry, yes. We don't know if ftp.uk.freebsd.org supports
tar on the fly so all links points to the main ftp machine.

A workaround would be to create the web pages on www.uk.freebsd.org
from the SGML sources and modify the scripts so that the
ports ftp links point to ftp.uk.freebsd.org.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~w/



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