Ports collection and FTP site??

[Scott Deardorff]

I was trying to download some distfiles and they appear to no longer be
there.

WAZUP??

-Scott

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[Thomas Matt Barton]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Scott Deardorff wrote:

> I was trying to download some distfiles and they appear to no longer
> be there.
>
> WAZUP??

I would imagine that it would be helpful if you mentioned which ports you
were having problems retrieving?

Have you updated your ports tree? Some of the old distfiles may not be
available.

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[Scott Deardorff]

I actually wasn't able to find any distfiles.

and also no previous releases

in particular I was trying to get

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/steve/webcopy-0.98b7.tar.gz

It also looks like all of the download links have been removed to
download the makefiles which will then get the distfiles, make any
FreeBSD specific patches and and do the build.

In general it looks like the whole FTP site has changed, with a lot of
things removed that were previously there, and consequently very useful
to me.

It appears that you are no longer supporting the source files/patches
that these downloads bring?

There also doesn't appear to be any links to anything from previous
releases.

I was just wondering if there was a good reason for this other than your
recent purchase by Wind River and change of policy.

Thanks for your response,

-Scott

"Thomas (Matt) Barton" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Scott Deardorff wrote:
>
> > I was trying to download some distfiles and they appear to no longer
> > be there.
> >
> > WAZUP??
>
> I would imagine that it would be helpful if you mentioned which ports you
> were having problems retrieving?
>
> Have you updated your ports tree? Some of the old distfiles may not be
> available.
>
> --
>
> Matt Barton ma...@fear.net
> Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/

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[Chan Tur Wei]

Hi,

Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
220 usw4.freebsd.org FTP server (Version DG-4.1.73 983302105) ready.
Name (ftp.freebsd.org:twchan): ftp
530-Sorry, but there are too many users logged into this machine now.
530-The maximum limit is 400 while we're on temporary hardware,
530-ftp.freesoftware.com (AKA the old ftp.freebsd.org) is off the net
530-for now and there is unfortunately no ETA for its return.
530-
530-Please try back in a few minutes, or try the alternate servers at:
530-
530- ftp://usw1.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/
530- ftp://usw4.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/
530-
530-They are sharing the same contents as this one.
530-My apologies for the inconvenience! -jkh
530-

If you'd been following -stable, you'd have read about how recently
ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freesoftware.com) was down - either actually down as
the above message implies, or some network bandwidth congestion somewhere.
Somebody put up a temporary ftp.freebsd.org so that 4.3-RELEASE could be
served to the world; I guess the temporary one didn't put the distfiles and
ports and stuff.

Regards

-T.W.Chan-