Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:28:41 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG, jordan@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving java files from web server to ftp server Message-ID: <19980811152841.B5770@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199808072048.OAA21096@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 02:48:30PM -0600 References: <199808071902.VAA21066@campa.panke.de> <199808072048.OAA21096@mt.sri.com>
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In <199808072048.OAA21096@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams wrote: > > Some *.tar.gz files are > > very large, 5-12MB each. HTTP is the wrong protocol for transfering > > large data, e.g. it does not support the 'reget' function. Can we move > > the large files to the FTP server ftp.freebsd.org? > > A number of folks have been asking for this, but I'm in no position to > give out ftp access to myself on wcarchive. David? Is there any reason to get the plain tarfile over the package built from the port? If not, we should point (on the Java page) people to the package first, which is on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/packages/lang/jdk-1.1.6.tgz [do not point to -current packages. It is outdated and the same as -stable anyway] Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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