From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon May 7 19: 8:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB6E37B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 19:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f480miA83872; Tue, 8 May 2001 12:48:44 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 12:48:44 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-Sender: dan@lists.unixathome.org To: jason andrade Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 May 2001, jason andrade wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > I have always kept one usable Alpha -current snapshot on the FTP site. > > > current.freebsd.org isn't mirrored, thus anyone wanting to access it has > > > to do to that one site. Why mirror ftp.freebsd.org at all then? > > > BTW, my experiences for the past several years is that connectivity to > > > current.freebsd.org is less than usable quite often. > > > > Well, I doubt that many people use the snaps at all. So I think having > > separate sites for them is an OK idea. Perhaps we should keep a small > > number of "known working" snaps on the ftp site, I guess. > > i also doubt many people use the snapshots. from observation, they either > checkout stuff via cvsup and make world, or else they use the RCs when that > is publicised. By snapshots, are we only referring to Alpha snapshots? If so, please ignore the rest of my message. I know that the i386 snapshots are very useful. Rather than install -release, you can install a snapshot and avoid the cvsup, build world, etc. That capabaility is very useful for newbies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message