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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up on 4.3-RELEASE on "ftp.freebsd.org"
Message-ID:  <200104231519.LAA83917@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010421191407M.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <20010421134015J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.OSF.4.20.0104220901440.7520-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> <20010421191407M.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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<<On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:14:07 -0700, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> said:

> When things are moved back to ftp.freesoftware.com, 4.3-RELEASE will
> still have its own collection of packages (packages-4.3-release),
> they'll just be in a different directory.  Or maybe not.  It's hard to
> figure out why we made it a symlink at all when it was release
> specific anyway.

To make it easier for mirror operators to manage their disk space.  If
I have a 50-Gig partition mounted on /y/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports, for
example.

-GAWollman


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