Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:21:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, scott@statsci.com, gpalmer@cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu, ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here? Message-ID: <199504260821.KAA27941@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199504260057.RAA07693@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 25, 95 05:57:05 pm
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Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote: > > * and I think we have established now that this won't > * work due to the configuration of some (many?) sites. > > I'm not sure, how many ftp sites out there have this configuration? I was trying to check ftp.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de, but they had a head crash lately and the archive not quite up to date currently.The french mirror (ftp.ibp.fr) does not follow the links. I tried some of the other european sites but it's not easy to find symlinks of the form <dir>/<file> -> <some/place> (<dir1>/<file> -> <dir1>/<dir2>/<file> is easy to find, but getting <dir1>.tar.gz to look for tar's configuration tends to create huge tar files ...). Probably you're right, we should just use the links. > I am strongly against /usr/distfiles. We already have enough > directories under /usr, and distfiles/ clearly belongs to /usr/ports. > Plus, this doesn't have to do anything with the problem at hand! Sure; I just thought it would be easier to see the connection between ports/ and a separate distfiles/ on the ftp archives and the user's disk (if we do it that way). Sorry for the confusion. tg
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