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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@iet.unipi.it>
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>Number:         2000
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       obsolete software in distfiles directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    asami
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 13 06:50:06 PST 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jan 3 19:54:44 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan  3 19:56:50 PST 1999
>Originator:     Luigi Rizzo
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

the "distfiles" directory contains in many cases obsolete versions of
software. People trying to download the whole "distfiles" distribution
often has to transfer (rough estimate) twice the amount of data
needed.

It would be nice to create an "obsolete" directory somewhere where to
put old things (I am talking about software superseded by new
versions, e.g. groff-1.09 --> groff-1.10, gn-2.22 ->gn-2.23 -> gn-2.24
etc, not different things like ghostscript 2.62 vs ghostscript 4.)

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->asami 
Responsible-Changed-By: obrien 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Feb 14 04:24:30 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
In charge of ports on wcarchive. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 3 19:54:44 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
There doesn't appear to be as many obselete versions of the distfiles 
on the ftp site now.  If all you want to do is grab the distfiles then 
'make fetch' from /usr/ports will work.  If you want something a little 
faster (or must get them from ftp.freebsd.org) try fiddling with the 
output of 'make fetch-list' from /usr/ports. 
>Unformatted:
