broken packages directory/link for amd64 freebsd 5.1 release ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:32:57PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:44:11AM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> 
> > it appears that the linking from the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages is
> > broken.   on ftp-master.us it is a directory rather than a link to
> > ../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release.  the directory is mainly
> > empty apart from a few empty subdirs and a couple of broken
> > linked packages.
> 
> There is no ../../../ports/amd64/packages-5.1-release directory at
> all.  What is inside of the amd64/5.1-RELEASE/packages directory is
> "correct" in that the INDEX file contains only two packages, and those
> two packages are present in the All directory (with symlinks to them
> from the other directories).
> 
> I could be wrong but I think at the time of 5.1 amd64 wasn't a
> "Tier-1" architecture.  One of the reasons would have been lack of
> ports compiling and running well on it yet.  :-)
> 
> For something like this I'm guessing the portmgr@ folks weren't
> heavily involved (if at all) so everything was done by the person
> who did the release build and s/he just put everything there.  The
> only two packages are perl (considered an absolute necessity, it's
> the only package in the -mini CD's) and bash (probably the shell of
> the main developer :-).

I think you're right here.  At the time we didn't even have amd64
package building machines.

Kris
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