Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 17:31:20 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960708172850.12617J-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <19375.836808547@time.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: [...] > Since the dawn of time, it's seems, we've always put the various > distribution subdirs on the CD into dists yet left them exposed on the > FTP site. Why? It seems like a gratuitous difference to me, and one > which only complicates the FTP installation procedure which currently > has to adapt to either format (you might have a CD mounted for FTP > access, for example). > > Any strenuous objections to folding these into one location in -current? > It's already too much of a doc / general confusion hit for 2.1.5 so > I'm going to leave things there as they are, but for 2.2... > > Comments? please make them the same... it's been hard for some of us without the disk space to just simplely copy the cd over to the hard disk because we don't have the space and you can't just point the ftp dist to the cd because of the floppies and the dists being in different base directories... I'm in favor for merging the two... but I think it would help is to mirror the floppies into the dists directory for the cd... that way you just point it into the dists directory and it will be able to find the floppy images... hope this helps... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.NEB.3.94.960708172850.12617J-100000>