cleanup/questions on some minor directories

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Thu Jan 22 06:34:32 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:08:55PM +1000, jason andrade wrote:

> so it's fine by me if a mirror site is using /pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS/
> as their placeholder for their cvsup repository but is it required that
> the *master* sites also provide/hold this data in that location ?

My understanding is that some sites[1] use it for the reverse situation
as well - for whatever reason they don't use cvsup to sync their
CVS repository and keep it "up to date" by just mirroring it from the
FreeBSD FTP tree.

[1] In this context site might not be a full-blown mirror site providing
stuff to other people, it could be a developer keeping his/her source
repository up to date this way via a local FTP mirror site.  You would
be amazed at what some of the developers ("real" developers active in
the project, "non-project" developers who take FreeBSD as a base and
build something else from it, and "wanna be" developers who work on their
own to fix stuff and send PR's) do...

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