Change of ftp download server's dir layout, from 9

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sun Jan 22 18:17:20 UTC 2012


On 01/22/12 11:11, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Devin Teske<devin.teske at fisglobal.com>
> To:<rank1seeker at gmail.com>
> Cc:<hackers at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:42:00 -0800
> Subject: Re: Change of ftp download server's dir layout, from 9
>
>> On Jan 22, 2012, at 8:01 AM,<rank1seeker at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Example:
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/
>>>
>>> Refering to KERNEL:
>>>     8 ->  kernels
>>>     9 ->  kernel (It was supposed to be 'kernels.txz', in order to preserve naming scheme)
>>>
>>>     9 ->  manpages is a NO MORE
>>>
>>> Where are CHECKSUM.MD5 and CHECKSUM.SHA256 for *.txz ?!?
>> You want the new "MANIFEST" file for such info.
>>
>> Though, it's unclear merely by just looking at the hash what digest it is (looks long enough to be sha256).
>> -- 
>> Devin
> Yep.
> And regarding a manpages ... I have a HUNCH, it is now part of a base.txz
> Thou, will know for sure, once I spit it into DESTDIR. ;)
>

It is SHA256 and base.txz does contain the manpages. The script that 
generates MANIFEST is at /usr/src/releases/scripts/make-manifest.sh if 
you want to see what the rest of the fields are.
-Nathan


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