docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:30:11AM -0700, Ken Smith wrote:
>  > 
>  > You mean ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches, or
>  > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/{FreeBSD-stable|FreeBSD-current} ?
>  > 
>  
>  They're the same thing:
>  
>  ftp-master 4 % ls -ld FreeBSD-current FreeBSD-stable branches
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     17 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-current@ -> branches/-current
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     wheel     19 Sep  6  2001 FreeBSD-stable@ -> branches/4.0-stable
>  drwxrwxr-x  6 archive  archive  512 Apr 24  2000 branches/
>  ftp-master 5 %
>  
>  If that causes more messes I can help clean them up.  We're hoping to do this
>  removal because the support for it among the mirror sites is already flakey.
>  Many of the mirror sites don't carry branches/ at all.  One of the machines
>  that makes up ftp.freebsd.org only carries a few of the things that are in
>  the branches/-current.
>

But what about ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/ ?  They will also stop to
provide direct access to -CURRENT/-STABLE source via FTP?
Does it mean that CVSweb will be the only way to get some
-CURRENT/-STABLE source files?

Marc