Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:16:23 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistencies in alpha packages ? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0111301614460.5759-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0111301533580.5759-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, jason andrade wrote: > the packages-5-current tree has a Latest directory made > up of symlinks into the All directory > > the packages-4-stable has a Latest directory which is > approximately the same size as the All directory ? > > since each tree is about 1.5G in size, does this mean that > we're forced to download an extra 1.5G each time the > tree is updated (for no reason?) or am i missing something? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 36486 Apr 23 2001 All/3dc-0.8.1.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 36486 Apr 23 2001 Latest/3dc.tgz this is much worse than i thought. it appears *every* directory in the packages-4-stable for alpha has identical files to All rather than symlinks as other packages trees have. can someone please fix this on ftp-master. it's severely broken IMHO and leading to needless disk space being used on mirrors i'd assume. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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