[arch-releng] archiso /repo directory naming

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:13:18 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> 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 ;)
> 

apparently 'os' is deprecated.
So:
/repo/core/any
/repo/core/$arch (i686 or x86_64 depending on which live environment,
maybe the dual images can even have them both?)

Dieter