docs/59900: out of date README.txt and .message files at ftp.freebsd.org

[Wolfram Schneider]

>Number:         59900
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       out of date README.txt and .message files at ftp.freebsd.org
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 02 03:20:14 PST 2003
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>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
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Many README.txt and .message files at the FreeBSD ftp server
ftp.freebsd.org are out of date

- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
  mention dead releases "3.5.1-RELEASE" and "4.2-RELEASE" 

- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT
  claimes that 4.7 is the latest release:

   [...]
    The official FreeBSD releases.  The latest releases are:

    releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE
    releases/alpha/4.7-RELEASE
   [...]

- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
  alot of dead and no longer available FreeBSD releases:


  These are packages for the i386 architecture.  Here are brief
  descriptions of each subdirectory.

  packages-2.2-stable:  The last snapshot of packages for
                        FreeBSD-2.2-stable, built in January 1999.
  packages-2.2.8:       Packages for FreeBSD 2.2.8-release.
  packages-3.5-release: Packages for FreeBSD 3.5-release.
  packages-4-stable:    Packages for FreeBSD-4-stable.  Updated weekly.
  packages-4.1-release: Packages for FreeBSD 4.1-release.
  packages-4.1.1-release: Packages for FreeBSD 4.1.1-release.
  packages-4.2-release: Packages for FreeBSD 4.2-release.
  packages-4.3-release: Packages for FreeBSD 4.3-release.
  packages-4.4-release: Packages for FreeBSD 4.4-release.
  *packages-5-current:   Packages for FreeBSD-5-current.  Updated weekly.

  (* - packages-5-current is currently unavailable .. sorry for the
     inconvenience)

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