Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:02:09 +0000 From: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@icparc.ic.ac.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-maintainers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Proposed reorganization of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <367FECB1.15430C91@icparc.ic.ac.uk> References: <81498.914350109@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Could I make one suggestion, please? Once the new layout is decided upon could you write a shell script to move from the old layout to the new layout? I realise that it is a bit of extra work to do when you're probably already busy but it would make life considerably easier for the mirror sites. Lee Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > In this new structure where would fit what used to be packages-2.2.7, > > packages-2.2.8 and packages-3.0 ? > > They would live under the release dirs or, in the case of a "branch" > set, under the branch subdirs. I'll paste in a current outline of the > proposed changes below, just in case this is confusing. > > > What about the snapshots ? There will be a snapshots/ directory or it will > > be under the current/, stable/ or releases/ directories ? > > Snapshots won't be distributed from ftp.cdrom.com anymore unless > there's something special about one of them. I want to leave this to > the current.freebsd.org/releng22.freebsd.org/??? servers which are > dedicated to the purpose. If a snapshot ever does appear on ftp.cdrom.com, > it will be under snapshot/ at the top level. > > > Is there a way to organize that so we can keep only ONE copy of XFree > > for each version of FreeBSD (2.2.x and 3.x) ? For me the old symbolic link > > Nope! Different binary types, for one thing, and some special > customizations which only we make for another. > > > And last, where will be the commerce and xperimnt ? That is also using a > > considerable amount of space, and there aren't much users that download > > those from here. > > They will live under the branch trees and be pointed at by the various > releases that wish to do so. > > Anyway, here's the latest revision of my proposed reorg: > > README.TXT > index.html > releases/ > README.TXT > index.html > 2.2.7-RELEASE/ > <stays the same> > 2.2.8-RELEASE/ > <stays the same> > 3.0-RELEASE/ > <stays the same> > 3.0.1-RELEASE/ > README.TXT > index.html > axp/ > x86/ > 2.2.8-STABLE -> ../2.2-branch > 3.0-CURRENT -> ../3.0-branch > 3.0-branch/ > README.TXT > index.html > ports > packages > src > commerce > xperimnt > 2.2-branch/ > README.TXT > index.html > ports > packages > src > commerce > xperimnt > doc/ > ... > > distfiles/ > .. distfiles .. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8432 South Kensington, London. SW7 2AZ. UK. Email: lmjm@icparc.ic.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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