Re: Package Pool Proposal

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I like that, so that would be using a largest prefix match set of
> > {[a-z],lib[a-z]}, only the single special case in the hash function.
> 
> Of course, amusingly, I think we're back to Guy's original idea. :-)

Not quite...

Guy Maor wrote:

> The archive will look like this:
> debian/dists/pool/{binary-arch,source}/x/package
>   x is the first letter of the filename.  Note that packages are not
>   organized according to section in the archive, just filename.

I wrote:

> If 857 is too big a number (I don't know that it is), make an
> exeption for lib packages and take the first letter _after_ `lib':

It's not often I have an idea that may actually get used here!
;-)

Peter