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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

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