From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jun 6 6:23:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6721A37B406 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.51]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g56DN7v22441 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:23:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g56DNIr01120 for hubs@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:23:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jose) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:23:18 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: links to the tools directory from releases Message-ID: <20020606152318.B229@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There is a little problem with the "tools" directory included in all releases: drwxr-xr-x 4 archive archive 1024 Jan 29 05:14 4.3-RELEASE/tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 archive archive 20 Oct 4 2001 4.4-RELEASE/tools -> ../4.3-RELEASE/tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 archive archive 20 Jan 31 05:13 4.5-RELEASE/tools -> ../4.4-RELEASE/tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 archive archive 20 May 30 06:39 4.6-RC3/tools -> ../4.5-RELEASE/tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 archive archive 20 Jun 6 05:14 4.6-RC4/tools -> ../4.3-RELEASE/tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 archive archive 20 Apr 8 05:17 5.0-DP1/tools -> ../4.3-RELEASE/tools Obviously, those links do not work in mirrors which don't carry the "old" 4.3-RELEASE. I think that linking to ../../../tools (or to ../tools after moving the tools directory from pub/FreeBSD to pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386) is a better solution. My 0.02¤, JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Jun 8 7:16: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABA337B405 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 07:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g58EG2W08531 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 23:16:02 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 37 From: Makoto Matsushita To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is not friendly to the mirror servers Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 23:16:00 +0900 Message-Id: <20020608231600J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't know who is the maintainer of ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, and I don't know where is the contact address of the host, here it is: The packages/ directory operation at ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is NOT mirror-servers friendly. Here is why. Several days ago, ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a DIRECTORY, which contains latest 4-stable packages, and it should be. However, today's ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a SYMLINK, which goes to packages-4.6-release. It is a very easy task on ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, because it can be done with: rm packages-4.6-release mv packages-4-stable packages-4.6-release ln -s packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable However, from the mirror server's point of view, this changes makes "removing packages-4-stable directory entirely" and "create packages-4.6-release directory and its contents". Moreover, if you mount packages-4.6-release/ directory via NFS, NFS client confuses and gets "stall NFS file handle". The correct instruction should be: rm packages-4.6-release cp -pr packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable It is obvious; create a directory for 4.6-RELEASE and put the contents. Some of you says "that eats disk space much"; but you forget that if packages-4-stable becomes a directory back again, your disk usage will be increased. There is no difference except the timing. ftp-master.FreeBSD.org maintainer, would you please don't remove packages-4-stable directory? Thanks in advance, -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Jun 8 11: 5: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (www.freebsdmall.com [66.220.2.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD22A37B400 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 9D1B82E842; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:04:56 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is not friendly to the mirror servers Message-ID: <20020608110456.B1535@freebsdmall.com> References: <20020608231600J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020608231600J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:16:00PM +0900 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:16:00PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > I don't know who is the maintainer of ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, and I > don't know where is the contact address of the host, here it is: David O'Brien, myself, Peter, and several members of portmgr@ have access to ftp-master. Usually, only the portmgr@ folks touch the packages. > Several days ago, ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a DIRECTORY, which > contains latest 4-stable packages, and it should be. However, today's > ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a SYMLINK, which goes to > packages-4.6-release. I can certainly see where the pain comes from. I've forwarded this email to portmgr@ to make sure that the person who did this understands the ramifications so that it won't happen again. Sorry for the hassle. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message