Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:23:44 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC3 uploaded for ia64 Message-ID: <20030119222344.GA13461@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <7miswkn61q.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> References: <20030119212337.GQ7189@skriver.dk> <7miswkn61q.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp>
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:11:45AM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > At Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:52:17 +0100 (CET), Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > That's really not necessary, because there's a ports.tgz in every > > snapshot and every release, and of course it can be checked out from > > the repo, too. And there's cvsweb, too. > > Hmm, should we really remove extracted source tree from ftp? Yes, > this is a nightmare for mirror administrators, but extracted src/ and > ports/ is one of the easiest way to check a single file content. > > Nowadays, I usually use cvsweb (and locally checked out files) to > check single file. For old branches (such as RELENG_2_2), I can use > files carried by ftp. I personally do not require these extracted > files on ftp. But I don't know how many users use them. If we need this, I would sugges to do it on a seperate ftp/http server, which is not mirrored. As it is now, these thousands of files cause the mirroring mechanism and the main servers a lot of unneeded load, and their load is high enough as it is. /Jesper To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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