Bug 54738

Comment 1 Marc Fonvieille 2003-07-22 08:40:45 UTC

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:13:28PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> >Description:
> 	We want to remove the branches/ section of the FTP site.  This
> 	patch, removes all references to that from the Handbook that I
> 	could find.

[...]

You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ?

Marc

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:40:45AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:13:28PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > >Description:
> > 	We want to remove the branches/ section of the FTP site.  This
> > 	patch, removes all references to that from the Handbook that I
> > 	could find.
> 
> [...]
> 
> You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ?
> 

They're the same thing:

ftp-master 4 % ls -ld FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable branches
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     17 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-current@ -> branches/-current
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     19 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-stable@ -> branches/4.0-stable
drwxrwxr-x  6 archive  archive  512 Apr 24  2000 branches/
ftp-master 5 %

If that causes more messes I can help clean them up.  We're hoping to do this
removal because the support for it among the mirror sites is already flakey.
Many of the mirror sites don't carry branches/ at all.  One of the machines
that makes up ftp.freebsd.org only carries a few of the things that are in
the branches/-current.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |

Comment 3 Marc Fonvieille 2003-07-22 17:35:53 UTC

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:30:11AM -0700, Ken Smith wrote:
>  > 
>  > You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or
>  > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ?
>  > 
>  
>  They're the same thing:
>  
>  ftp-master 4 % ls -ld FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable branches
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     17 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-current@ -> branches/-current
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     19 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-stable@ -> branches/4.0-stable
>  drwxrwxr-x  6 archive  archive  512 Apr 24  2000 branches/
>  ftp-master 5 %
>  
>  If that causes more messes I can help clean them up.  We're hoping to do this
>  removal because the support for it among the mirror sites is already flakey.
>  Many of the mirror sites don't carry branches/ at all.  One of the machines
>  that makes up ftp.freebsd.org only carries a few of the things that are in
>  the branches/-current.
>

But what about ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/ ?  They will also stop to
provide direct access to -CURRENT/-STABLE source via FTP?
Does it mean that CVSweb will be the only way to get some
-CURRENT/-STABLE source files?

Marc

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:35:53PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:

> But what about ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/ ?  They will also stop to
> provide direct access to -CURRENT/-STABLE source via FTP?

That was the plan, they get it from ftp-master I believe.

> Does it mean that CVSweb will be the only way to get some
> -CURRENT/-STABLE source files?

Yes.  We thought that's a better way to get them, it's more functional
and doesn't load up the mirror system with tons of small files that
change fairly often.

This is probably still open to discussion if it's a big problem.
Basically our theory was that the stuff on the FTP site had been
useful before CVSweb came along but now that it's available the
load of carrying the branches/ stuff through the mirror system
isn't worth it.  If the theory is wrong we might be able to come
up with some sort of alternative.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |

Comment 5 Jun Kuriyama 2003-08-06 02:30:57 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks!