On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to > > do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work with the ecgs compiled > > packages, maybe i586 is better than pent.) > > please : no symlinks to something. > we have good tools (dselect, dftp), that can take care of the directory > structures. symlinks only make everything bigger and confuse people. > symlinks are convinient, but using dselect, dftp, deity or some other > tool can be more convinient. and all these can or could work without symlinks, > as the file location is listed in the Package file.
Andreas, Can you compare: debian/dists/unstable/hamm/binary/admin/ debian/dists/unstable/hamm/binary-all/admin/ and explain how we should get rid of the symlinks in binary (which is itself a symlink to i386)? I'm basically proposing another platform which is backward compatable. Therefore, make the directory for the platform, and while we don't have a package of the new type, use the old type. However, I still haven't heard about the possibility of getting dselect's ftp to look at binary-pent or at the compatability of pentium clones. If we put everything in the same directory with different provides, etc, I feel like things will get really confusing, and defeating the purpose of having different directories for different architectures. Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
