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Subject: sup server information - whoa, stop everbody!
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 13:10:07 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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It appears that I've been spreading a good deal of erroneous information
in my little sup-server-kit.tar.gz file on freefall, and I've moved
it to sup-server-kit.tar.gz.BROKEN for now.  Once Justin updates
it, I expect he'll move it back.

Basically, things in ~sup have changed rather dramatically over the
last few months and I clearly haven't been keeping up with the
changes, nor have the docs I've been referring to in ~ftp/pub/sup (on
freefall) been kept up to date, as would also appear to be the case in
the Handbook.  At this point I'm going to admit defeat and refer
everyone to the sup meister (appointed by his own hand :-), Justin
Gibbs.

Please talk to Justin <gibbs@freebsd.org> about sup related matters if
you're one of the folks who have volunteered to be a sup mirror for
the -stable, -current or CVS bits.  I clearly need to educate myself
about the current state-of-the-art in our sup collections before I can
presume to guide other folks through the process.

I've also asked Justin to wield a large broom in ~sup to clean out all
the old dreck in there since it's currently a very confusing pastiche
of old and new collections, and frankly I don't really even know where
old stops and new starts anymore.  If you're using old sup files, you
should probably expect them to break in the next 24 hours or so
(Justin will probably send out his own announcement).  I do believe
you've been warned about the impending changes, so don't come crying
to us when they break! :)

Again, I'm sorry for the confusion I caused and will now bow
gracefully out (as well as I can with egg all over my face, anyway) of
the sup server education business.

Someone should probably also update the handbook and the information
files in ~ftp/pub/sup on freefall.

Thanks!

					Jordan