Re: How does a port become real?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:53:08PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > until the mirroring stuff is segmented to support more architectures.
> > > 
> > > How/when is that going to happen?
> > > 
> > > We haven't done anything like this, and I would expect that such an
> > > undertaking (the accompanying conversion and accomodating changes)
> > > would take years to get done properly...
> > 
> > Woody did it before, converting to pools. The transition was finalized
> > end of last year when the last of potato was removed I think.
> 
> No, it didn't, the Packages files changed paths but no data was moved out of
> the same toplevel directory.

I don't thing anything else is planed for "segmenting" the mirror.

Details please. Anyone?

MfG
        Goswin