Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:35:52 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Older releases coming back on ftp-master Message-ID: <20021117083552.GA26753@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211171446380.1086-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> References: <200211160709.gAG79Rx8089576@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211171446380.1086-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
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Hello, jason andrade! On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:49:16PM +1000, you wrote: > > > Peter has migrated the ftp archive on ftp-master to a larger > > > filesystem, so there is now room to put back some of the things we > > > have had to remove over time for lack of space. I will probably be > > > putting back some of the more recent 4.x releases (and package sets), > > > and maybe 3.5 also (depending on space). > > > > I'd prefer to see this in a separate section of the archive. There is > > very little value to us as a mirror in keeping lots of old releases on > > hand, and we do not plan on increasing the disk space available to it. > > i'd agree. i'm contemplating an "archive" section which will allow mirrors > to specifcally exclude older releases. the archive section would not be a > requirement for being a tier1/complete freebsd mirror. And what about package sets, which path should not contain archive for pkg_add -r ? -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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