Re: m68k boot-floppies
"Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:
> Ok ok, its subarches, not flavours. But my general understanding was right?
Yes.
> > See the top-level README-Users.m4 for a description. But I'm pretty
> cts@ap031:~/user/CVS/boot-floppies>grep m68k README* |wc
> 2 13 172
> m68k is exactly mentioned twice...
So?
That file establishes the logical arrangement of where the files go,
no matter what the platform or architecture. ARM isn't mentioned at
all I think, yet, an intelligent person could read that, and, knowing
how ARM works, figure out how to lay out the files in a manner
consistent with other arches and with the general plan.
> > I'll let Nick do that, but I will say that raw disk images are what
> > goes in images-1.44 etc. Files specifically for installation under a
> > given OS should probalby be placed, i.e., in mac/macos or some such.
> For slink it was mac/debian, why not just mac/, atari/, amiga/?
That's acceptable...
> slink hade some scripts for the ftp maintainers, telling about the directory
> layout. Is this still needed? I think its all explained in the tar.gz files
> and I could find anything similar for other arches. Anyway, as they are now,
> they are completely outdated.
Stomp-em! The releases/ subdir should be laid out as it is supposed
to be, and thus, the .tar.gz files, of course.
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