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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________