Legacy mirror structure

Jeff Sheltren sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Tue Jan 20 17:08:30 UTC 2004


I like what's behind door number two.  ie:
redhat/7.3/updates/i386

It just makes more sense to me since that is what I'm used to seeing on
redhat mirrors.

-Jeff

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:59, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 08:53, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Aha! So I guess the major question left is :
> >
> > - arch then module, e.g. redhat/7.3/i386/updates/
> >   - or -
> > - module then arch, e.g. redhat/7.3/updates/i386/
> >
> > You seem to prefer the former, while the latter is the one closest to
> > what Red Hat has been using for RHL and FC. Oh, and in the above,
> > "base" should probably be avoided to not be confused with apt's
> > special directory. The other suggestions I have (what I've been
> > using) for it would be "os" or "core".
> 
> Well, it just looks cleaner to me in my yum conf if the only thing I 
> have to change is the very end of the URL, changing "core" to "updates" 
> to "updates-testing", rather than editing farther up the line prior to 
> the $basearch.  I'll listen to other opinions on the matter.





More information about the fedora-legacy-list mailing list