Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-01 Thread Michael K. Johnson
Ian Murdock writes: ther have to have separate Incoming directories for all >supported architectures, or we'll have to have a naming scheme for all >Incoming binary packages (prepending a dash and the architecture name, >for example) that can be easily resolved before the packages are moved. Cons

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-21 Thread Michael K. Johnson
Bill Mitchell writes: >The most reasonable approach seems to me (of course) to be the one >which I've been arguing -- a naming standard very close to current >practice, minimizing package renaming, and minimizing mangling of >upstream naming and versioning. Let me throw another idea in the pot.

Re: coming soon

1995-12-16 Thread Michael K. Johnson
David Engel writes: >> >> 3. /etc/rc[0-6].d will move to /etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d to match the >> >> practice on other Linux systems. Symbolic links will provide >> >> compatibility with the old locations. >> > Is this really necessary ? Real SysV's do things the way we have >> > done. >>

Re: debian-1.0 availability

1995-12-10 Thread Michael K. Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Robert Leslie writes: > Robert> I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu > Robert> doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers > Robert> debian-1.0. > >It's getting jucier by the minute: > >This domain has a local wuarchive m