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Valery Mitsyn <[log in to unmask]>
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Valery Mitsyn <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:40:07 +0300
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Hello Connie and Troy,

sorry for disturb you, but as you promised in this (old) mail,
probably this is the time now to change links to 42 for i386 and
x86_64 at least?

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:

> Changes were made to make it easier for us and the mirrors when new
> releases were made.  In the past the SRPMS directory was moved to the
> "new" release directory.  This of course means that all the mirrors have
> to remove all the old SRPMS and download them again as rsync/lftp did not
> know that we just moved the directory.  Now SRPMS will live permanently in
> 4x/SRPMS/ .  I have also moved errata/obsolete/ and errata/debuginfo to
> 4x/archives/ .  This was done to errata/obsolete/ and errata/debuginfo/ as
> it was in the same situation as SRPMS was.  Now SRPMS, debuginfo, obsolete
> will only get new files and will not move each release.
>
> This new tree structure also allows for different "levels" to be under 4x.
> For example i386 and x86_64 will point to the 42 tree while ia64 will
> point to the 41 tree.
>
> Sorry for this but I believe that this is a better design.  Thanks to the
> users who found the old tree to be confusing and made me think about ways
> to make it better.
>
> -Connie Sieh
> -Troy Dawson
>

-- 
Best regards,
  Valery Mitsyn

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