Re: Archive organization
adam.heath@usa.net (Adam Heath) wrote on 30.03.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980330000339.24078A-100000@adam.hackers-net.com>:
> Currently, there is this struction(from root):
>
> ./bo
> ./contrib
> ./non-free
Bo was before dist.
> ./hamm/hamm
> ./hamm/main -> hamm
> ./hamm/contrib
> ./hamm/non-free
Hamm, too, started out before dist, IIRC (but included contrib-and-non-
free-is-part-of-it-too).
> ./dists/slink/main
> ./dists/slink/contrib
> ./dists/slink/non-free
Now that we have dists, there's no good reason to do it any other way.
(So this layout represents history, and learning how to do it better.)
> Shouldn't ./dists/slink/main be ./dists/slink/slink, with ./dists/slink/main
> symlinked to main? And, wouldn't it be nice for consistency to have a main
> symlinked to bo in the root?
No, and no - no tool looking in the root knows about main (that started
with dists, and actually came after hamm/hamm IIRC), and for consistency,
it would be nice if everything were only found below dists with the
exception of the {{un,}stable,frozen} and Debian* symlinks, except we
can't move the stuff without overloading the mirrors. And we can't remove
some of the old symlinks for compatibility to old software (dselect in
particular), but that doesn't hold for slink. (Note that we finally got
rid of the binary -> binary-i386 symlink from before there were other
architectures.)
All IMHO.
MfG Kai
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