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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:56:30 -0600
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Hello,
Thanks for the reminder.  The links have been changed.
Troy

Valery Mitsyn wrote:
> 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
>>
> 


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