Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Brederlow wrote:
> > > I would feel disappointed by such a "solution". Seperating out a port will
> > > make all integration efforts harder, and please consider the consequences
> > > for our complete infrastructure (mirror, documentation, etc). Furthermore,
> > > most of the binary all stuff is equally useful for both systems.
> >
> > It's not quite a port, it's a different operating system. :)
>
> To me, it's a port of the Debian infrastructure to a new OS :)
>
> > > > Also its much easier to mirror or download the stuff.
> > >
> > > How so? I don't see this.
> >
> > When I'm a hurd fan, I can just select debian-hurd and hit the
> > download key (together with stabling symlincs) and I have my hurd for
> > all my archs.
>
> I see. Well, your proposed link farms are nice, but in general I think we
> should stay conservative. I don't know much about ftp archives and
> mirroring, so I am a bad consultant :)
On ftp mirrors links will be mirrored as links. So its just a few Kb
for the link farm. When you download something from there, you would
then have to stable the links. ftp does this, wget usually gets the
links and mc has an option.
> Marcus
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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