New mirror layout for the merged core and extras
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 21:50:43 UTC 2007
John Poelstra wrote:
> Jesse Keating said the following on 04/05/2007 01:59 PM Pacific Time:
>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:47:12 Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> The final tree picture on the page shows all of:
>>>
>>> core/development
>>> development
>>> extras/development
>>>
>>> are those supposed to be:
>>>
>>> core/development -> ../development
>>> development
>>> extras/development -> ../development
>>>
>>> ? Or else, what does it mean? We're not going to have both merged and
>>> unmerged copies of all the development/ contents on mirrors are we?
>>
>> For a period of time, the core/development and extras/development
>> content will stick around as it was last updated. This will allow
>> mirrors to have something to hardlink against for the new merged
>> content in linux/development. After a short time, the
>> core/development will become a symlink to linux/development as will
>> extras/development become a symlink to the same place, for a period of
>> time before the directories are expunged all together.
>
> Why do we need the parent "linux" directory if it only has one child?
> Seems to me that getting rid of it would be a nice think like happened
> to RPMS on the install disks.
Its not an only child. There's also a "projects" directory. It just
wasn't relevant to the discussion (or so it seemed ;).
--
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com
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