On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson 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 > > So that the division is down before the arch. > > I don't think we should change SL3 or 4, that would confuse users too much. > But what are people's opinions about moving to that directory structure for > SL5. > > The biggest plus I see is that it would make things easier to mirror. I think that this is a BIG plus. > It might make things a little confusing for those longtime SL people, but > some of them might like it. To be honest, I haven't had anyone come to me > asking where the errata directory was, so the current scheme must not be too > hard to figure out. Hmm... for what it's worth it took me quite some time to figure out where the errata was etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Richard Alexander Owen Physicist/Programmer Queen Mary, University of London Tel: 0207 882 5054 Physics Department Email: [log in to unmask] Mile End Road London E1 4NS, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------