Hi,
I don't find it all that confusing.  It's to save space.  All of the 
S.L. 3.x releases have the exact same source rpm's.  What is the point 
in making multiple copies of the same files.  The other problem if we 
had a separate srpm's directory for each release is that sometimes 
something might get put in one, and not in another.  The same points go 
for S.L. 4.x.

There might be some debate about the obsolete and/or debuginfo 
directories.  Because something that is current in 302, can be obsolete 
in 303.  But it's nice to be able to just go in the same directory for 
obsolete's and debuginfo.

We debated about hard linking them, but then thought about people 
mirroring us, and alot of mirroring software understands soft links much 
better than hard links.  And then the mirrors would fill up.


Maarten Ballintijn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Maybe I am confused. But with the links below, doing
> "cd ./304/SRPMS" you end up in "./305/SRPMS" right?
> That seems confusing at best.
> 

No, you do not go to ./305/SRPMS/ you go to ./30x/RPMS/.  This means you 
always go to the *latest* SRPMS directory.
And ... all the srpm's for 304 are in that directory.

Troy

> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:29 -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>>Maarten Ballintijn wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Connie and Troy,
>>>
>>>It seems like some symbolic links where not updated
>>>when 30x and 4x moved to the latest releases, ie.
>>>
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Jul 26 04:02 ./30x -> 305
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Nov  6 18:03 ./304/SRPMS -> ../30x/SRPMS
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           33 Nov  6 18:05 ./304/i386/errata/obsolete -> ../../../30x/i386/errata/obsolete
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           34 Nov  6 18:05 ./304/i386/errata/debuginfo -> ../../../30x/i386/errata/debuginfo
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           35 Nov  6 18:07 ./304/x86_64/errata/obsolete -> ../../../30x/x86_64/errata/obsolete21872643    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           36 Nov  6 18:07 ./304/x86_64/errata/debuginfo -> ../../../30x/x86_64/errata/debuginfo
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            2 Aug  5 04:02 ./4x -> 41
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Nov  6 18:03 ./40/SRPMS -> ../4x/SRPMS
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           32 Nov  6 18:04 ./40/i386/errata/obsolete -> ../../../4x/i386/errata/obsolete
>>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           33 Nov  6 18:04 ./40/i386/errata/debuginfo -> ../../../4x/i386/errata/debuginfo
>>>
>>>Or is this intended?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Maarten.
>>> 
>>
>>I guess I'm confused.  Which links do you think are wrong?
>>
>>That all looks correct to me.  Or are we missing some?
>>
>>Troy


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