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.

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