Fedora repository layout proposal

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Fri Mar 11 18:34:35 UTC 2005


On Thursday 10 March 2005 09:30, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> If you are going to split out SRPMS/debuginfo (wise imho), then you
> should also consider splitting
> multilib arches into seperate repositories.

I also believe that splitting might be a good idea.

That said, do you (Jeff) mean that on a x86_64 system, the i386 multilib 
updates would be pulled from the i386 repo rather than from the x86_64 repo 
as it now does?

I can see lots of benefits (less disk space on mirrors) but also a potential 
problem -- when updating a package for multiple architectures, you need to 
make sure that it builds on all architectures supported or none of the 
updated packages gets propagated to their respective repositories ... 
otherwise, things could get out-of-sync easily.
-- 
Gene




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