Re: emacs arch archive

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>>     I still don't know how I can provide external access though
>>     (alpha.gnu.org used to be suitable for this kind of thing, as it
>>     used a directory on fencepost, but I have no idea where it is
>>     these days, or how to get write access to it).
>> 
>> It is probably the directory ~ftp on fencepost.
>
> It used to be that, but now ~ftp seems to point to something random
> (it only contains two subdirectories `incoming' and `outgoing', but that
> doesn't resemble what's visible on alpha.gnu.org).
>
> There's also /gnu/alpha on fencepost, which _appears_ to contains an the
> old version of ~ftp, but it's not the same as what I see at
> alpha.gnu.org -- it looks like maybe the current alpha was at somepoint
> cloned from what's in /gnu/alpha, but it's apparently diverged quite a
> bit since then.

The GNU Maintenance manual is incorrect about fencepost:~ftp, I sent a
note about this earlier.

The current location for alpha.gnu.org FTP appear to be
gnuftp.gnu.org:~alpha/gnu/.