Re: confusing documentation
Andy Saxena wrote:
>
> This is specifically with reference to
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames
>
> "When sid did not exist, the FTP site organization had one major flaw: there
> was an assumption that when an architecture is created in the current
> unstable, it will be released when that distribution becomes the new stable.
> For many architectures that isn't the case, with the result that those
> directories had to be moved at release time, chewing up lots of bandwidth."
>
> Hmmmm...what's an architecture? How is it different from a package or a
> distribution?
>
> -Andy
>
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Architecture refers to the hardware on which the distribution is loaded,
such as i386 for intel, alpha for sparc/sun etc.
mike
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