Archiving packages-5.3-release

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> As we progress through the release of 6.0 some more package trees will
> wind up coming online so I'm trying to remove some of the older ones.
> The secteam still supports 5.3-RELEASE so totally removing that isn't
> possible at this point.  But there is general agreement we don't need to
> keep the whole package tree online, just the pieces that help towards
> making a clean basic install.
> 
> So...  Today I did this:
> 
> 1) Copied all of the 5.3 Release related bits to the FreeBSD-Archive
> site.
> 
> 2) On ftp-master I removed the releases/5.3-RELEASE/packages symbolic
> link, and replaced that with the packages/ directory that was on disc1
> of the release ISO.  This is much much smaller than the full-blown
> release package tree.
> 
> I'll let things settle in this state until Wednesday, at which point I
> will remove the packages-5.3-release tree from the ports area.

After this space is freed I will begin uploading packages-7-current
trees (only i386 to begin with).

Kris
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