On 10/11/2012 01:40, Glen Barber wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:04:22PM +0200, Claude Buisson wrote:
And for the record, they are NOT official snapshots.
I know, but:
- there are no more "official snapshots" on freebsd.org
This is a problem, and for what it is worth (and as Mark mentioned in a
previous reply), the end goal is "official" snapshots.
- anybody enquiring about it on the lists is directed to allbsd.org
For clarification purposes, my goal is _not_ to compete with allbsd.org
(in case anyone sees it that way), but to provide an alternative
location for snapshots.
- the recently created snapshots.glenbarber.us is much more limited
May I ask what it is that is limiting? If there is some limitation, I
certainly will do what I can to address it.
Right now, the limitations I am already aware of are:
- Lack of varying ranges of dates of snapshots to download. This is
really due to lack of space on the machine these snapshots are
hosted to hold much more than 3 days of snapshots.
- Lack of snapshots for the stable/8 branch. I'm working on this, and
differences (infrastructurally) in how the release builds work
between stable/9 and stable/8 are trickier than I originally
anticipated to work around. I have local patches to the release
build script in -CURRENT that I have been testing to make "legacy"
release builds do the right thing, and have had some success with my
changes, but I am not yet comfortable committing them just yet.
Having said that, I will not upload snapshot images that I am not
sure are okay to use.
You said it, I have nothing to add.
As mentioned in my original email, I certainly do welcome feedback. I
certainly will do what I can to address any issues and/or limitations.
Do not misinterpret my mail: I really think that your work is useful.
And unofficial snapshots are always better than noexistent official ones.
Glen
Claude Buisson
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