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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:27:34 -0500
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Marc W. Mengel wrote:
> 
>> Currently, SL 3.x and 4.x has the directory structure
>>
>> 4.4/i386/errata
>> 4.4/i386/contrib
>> 4.4/i386/SL/RPMS
>>
>> Where everything is pushed up into the arch directory.  CentOS has 
>> things at
>>
>> 4.4/contrib/i386
>> 4.4/updates/i386
>> 4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS
>>
> 
> I think generally pushing the architecture type differences deeper (i.e. 
> the CentOS layout) is easier to follow.  In fact, it would be, from that
> perspective, nicer to do
>   4.4/SL/RPMS/i386
> but that's just me :-)
> 
> Marc
I think that would require a whole rewrite of the installer.  The 
installer needs it's supporting structure, so you put all that stuff 
under /os/
But I'll put you down as a vote of yes of the change for SL5

Troy
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