Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:19:25 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on 4.3-RELEASE on "ftp.freebsd.org" Message-ID: <200104252119.XAA08421@mother.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:40:15 PDT." <20010421134015J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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> More importantly, it also means that for right now, older releases are > not on the site and that the pub/FreeBSD directory also contains the > -stable snapshots. This means that you should NOT simply blindly > mirror ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ with the delete option on > (in which case you'll lose all the older releases) or fail to exclude > the snapshots directory unless you actually want all those snapshots > on your mirror. > > I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but this happened with literally no > warning so a painless transition simply wasn't an option for us. Had > I known in advance, I would have made stable.freebsd.org a full FTP > mirror before adding the 4.3-RELEASE bits to it. For now, I think > it's best to simply regard "ftp.freebsd.org" as a place to get 4.3 > from and nothing else. Once ftp.freesoftware.com comes back up, all > the bits will be recombined there again. I would be extremly hapy if you could tell me where 4.3-RELEASE is supposed to be. Or more to the point, where /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/ packages should be. And DO NOT MOVE IT until you know the final place for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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