[Bug 265227] Aim for consistent information about mirroring, consider rationalising some of the various README.TXT files

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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:02:06 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265227

--- Comment #1 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> ---
Some extracts …

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> not accepting new mirrors 

> looking for new locations; 

> not looking for additional mirrors.

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> ports/${ARCH}/
>     The FreeBSD package collection for supported architectures of the
>     FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE.  

– outdated

> ports/distfiles/
>     Relocated to: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/
> ports/local-distfiles/
>     Relocated to: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/

– I can guess why both URLs are 403 forbidden, an explanation (forewarning)
will be smart. 

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<https://download.freebsd.org/releases/README.TXT>

> … target architecture:
> 
> 	amd64/amd64			Intel/AMD x86_64 (64-bit)
> 	i386/i386			Intel/AMD x86 (32-bit)
> 	ia64/ia64			Intel Itanium
> 	powerpc/powerpc			32-bit PowerPC
> 	powerpc/powerpc64		64-bit PowerPC
> 	sparc64/sparc64			Sparc64

– is aarch64 missing from this table? Compare with e.g. 
  <https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/>


> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html#MIRRORS-CDROM

– redirects to
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mirrors/#MIRRORS-CDROM>, a
non-existent anchor.

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