FTP site organization
The FTP site organization is making some archive management almost
impossible. It changes constantly and does not work well in
conjunction with the non-US archive and possible others.
It's not worth changing bo and hamm. Their physical location is not
really the problem anyway, so long as they will also fit into the
proposed logical structure. My problems stem mostly from what
"Filename:" value is in the "Packages" file.
Here is what I propose:
ftp/pub/debian/
stable -> dists/stable
frozen -> dists/frozen
unstable -> dists/unstable
dists/stable (symlink to current stable distribution)
dists/frozen (symlink to current frozen distribution)
dists/unstable (symlink to current development distribution)
dists/<dist>/ (actual location of distribution files)
main/ (main distribution files)
non-free/ (non free distribution files [1])
non-US/ (non US distribution files [2])
- All "Packages" files will give the "Filename:" field relative start with
"dists/...".
[1] note that contrib is to merged into non-free since it has been pointed
out that it is largely redundant
[2] this directory will be empty in most places, but provides a convient
"mount-point" for those who combine the distributions elsewhere
I'm making this proposal as VP.Engineering. I'd like comments on it so
we can get something good settled that doesn't have to change every couple
months.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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