Re: FTP site orginazation (draft 2)
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Brian White wrote:
>
> > After some discussion, the proposal is now:
> >
> > ftp/pub/debian/
> > stable -> dists/stable
> > frozen -> dists/frozen
> > unstable -> dists/unstable
> > Debian-1.3 -> dists/stable (note lack of trailing ".1")
Why do you want to drop the trailing ".1"? The current release is called
"1.3.1" and this would surely produce unnecessary confusion.
> > dists/stable -> <dist> (symlink to current stable distribution)
> > dists/frozen -> <dist> (symlink to current frozen distribution)
> > dists/unstable-><dist> (symlink to current development distribution)
> > dists/<dist>/ (actual location of distribution files)
> > main/ (main distribution files)
> > documents/ (auxillary documentation files [1])
> > contrib/ (contributed distribution files)
> > non-free/ (non free distribution files)
> > non-US/ (non US distribution files)
> >
> > (hope I didn't miss anything)
>
> I guess by <dist> you mean the codename, Right?
>
> If so, I think it would be better to put them in other subdirectory,
> to separate the "public" names from the "internal" ones.
> Something like:
>
> dists/stable -> ../codenames/<dist>
> dists/frozen -> ../codenames/<dist>
> dists/unstable-> ../codenames/<dist>
> codenames/<dist>/
> main/
> documents/
> ...
>
> Also, if we use the dists/* symlinks, do we still need the
> {stable,unstable,frozen} symlinks in ftp/pub/debian/ ?
I think you're right. But wouldn't it be better to drop the dists
directory, then?
Thanks,
Chris
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