Re: bloating of the main ftp mirror in the "distfiles" directory...

	these files are hardlinks. see mirroring-ports(7)

	You should NOT mirror that directory.

	Nor should you be mirroring from the main ftp server. please
mirror from a secondary. 

	-Bob


* leon zadorin <[email protected]> [2007-07-26 19:43]:
> Hi, I was wondering as to why (apparently) duplicate files are being
> stored on the main ftp server for OpenBSD.
> 
> Specifically, the question concerns the "distfiles" directory where
> various (largish) files in addition to being present at the
> "distfiles" level are also being duplicated in the "md5" subdirectory
> of "distfiles"...
> 
> For example, the following two files appear to be identical (i.e.
> running "cmp" on them yields no differences):
> 
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/gnome-applets-2.8.2.tar.bz2
> 
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/md5/10d83b6e031bad31d7cfefe2c4884bd7/gnome-applets-2.8.2.tar.bz2
> 
> Is there any reason for this to take place?
> 
> And, more importantly, is it possible to skip "distfiles/md5" and
> "distfiles/sha1" sudirectories when mirroring the ftp mirror (i.e. so
> that I would still then be able to make ports from sources without
> having to download the duplicate files in the md5/sha1 dirs) - I am in
> a process of mirroring the "distfiles" directory (current Internet
> connection allows me to do it at no charge and rather "quickish",
> whilst in a near future this will change - so I am "caching up" the
> bulk of data to save me money and time when I get to installing
> OpenBSD and playing with it more and more)...
> 

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