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[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:49:35AM -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:33:32PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> >The question he raised was whether requiring the packages as part
> >of being a Tier-2 was necessary.  Using the 5.1 release as an example
> >what I proposed as the Tier-2 requirements was that they carry:
> >
> >	releases/i386/5.1-RELEASE/
> >	ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/
> >
> >I don't think it's necessary for them to carry the -current packages.
> 
>     You mean that only the packages from the lastest stable release is 
> needed at tier-2, right?  Considering the -packages growth, I don't 
> think we can force a tier-2 to carry more than one set...

Sorry - yes.  I'm having problems mapping directory names into something
useful for this conversation.  They should carry:

	ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/

and should not be *required* to carry:

	ports/i386/packages-5-current/

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