[arch-releng] archiso /repo directory naming

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Aug 10 18:13:18 EDT 2011


On 08/10/2011 04:01 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Hi,
> I see there are two directories with packages:
> /repo/any ->  contains packages for "any" architecture
> /repo/pkg ->  contains arch specific packages (i.e. i686 on an i686 live cd) plus symlinks to all files in /repo/any
>
> my questions: why do you name the directory /repo/pkg and not something like /repo/i686 ? specifying the architecture seems more sensible and consistent to me.
> Also, since these images are the copies of what's in core, why not use the name "core" in there somewhere? like /repo/core-any and /repo/core-i686 or even better.. why not follow the same convention as used on our mirrors? that seems like the cleanest.
> then it would be /repo/core/os/any and /repo/core/os/i686 (not sure why the 'os' subdir is needed though)
>
> Dieter
>
Please decide what pathnames like for both directories, I will change 
them ;)

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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