Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 22:31:30 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time for 5.1-R bits Message-ID: <20030609053130.GA69487@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0306091321500.619-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> References: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org> <7mn0gw9ni0.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <3EDFE735.30604@freebsd.org> <3EE04C63.30203@freebsd.org> <20030609023437.GA25227@muse.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0306091246550.619-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <200306090302.h5932J9c014470@bmah.dyndns.org> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0306091321500.619-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com>
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:28:55PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > preferably to ISO-IMAGES/5.1 > > > > >From what scottl told me briefly, this was a simple mistake. I'm not > > sure if it's worth fixing at this late date (i.e. if we rename them, > > isn't that going to cause a lot of thrashing as the mirrors re-fetch > > the bits with the corrected pathnames?). > > > > I'd rather that we had got it right in the first place, clearly. > > sigh.. my $0.02 is to change it by hardlinking the images into > 5.1/ and then removing the older 5.1-RELEASE a bit later. > > but this of course won't help mirrors using ftp instead of rsync > so i guess it's not all that great a solution to stop multiple > syncing/deletion. hmm. IMHO the thrash factor is pretty low > in this instance and it's worth being consistent before the > announcement goes out. > > personally i have made everything consistent with ISO-IMAGES/5.1/ > across all architectures manually, so i hope that is not a problem. I prefer "local" consistency over global consistency, with which I mean that if there's an ia64/5.0-RELEASE directory already, we should call it ia64/5.1-RELEASE and not ia64/5.1 even if there's an i386/5.1 > > They are? > > when i last looked (and synced) they were 644 on the iso images, but > perhaps i was seeing things. You may have been syncing in the middle of uploading. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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