Re: FTP site organization
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> > Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:
> > > 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])
>
> Might I just remind people that the Deity team is building a dselect
> replacement which will be able to handle source lists? See:
> <URL:http://www.verisim.com/~behanw/deity/deity-ui_0.10.html#src>
>
> When this happens, there will be no need for the main distribution and
> the non-us distribution even to be on the same FTP server for Deity to
> handle them together neatly. The same should be true for any other
> "side distributions".
I was just about to post the same thing myself. This is quite true.
Furthermore, it may make things nicer for the end user if the user
could specify the base of the mirror and have Deity aquire all package
files for all distributions and all sub-dists that are on that mirror. Ie
it would get a Packages file for every directory in the dists/ directory.
Keep that in mind when designing the layout -- ie no extra directories
or links off the dists dir and so on..
Thanks,
Jason
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