Proposed change for file locations on download server
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Tue May 18 02:22:39 UTC 2004
Once upon a time Tuesday 18 May 2004 12:19 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I've been thinking over the way we have files on the server, and I've
> thought of a solution to a problem.
>
> Problem: legacy-utils provided may not install cleanly to a freshly
> installed legacy OS. Some packages may have to be updated.
>
> Proposed Solution: legacy-utils will contain utilities that are built
> against a non-updated OS install (fresh from the CDs). Updates to these
> utilities will be provided in the updates/ tree for the release.
>
> The only drawback is that non-original packages will be placed into the
> updates/ tree. After some thought, I'm comfortable with this, as
> individuals that do not have these packages installed will not be effected
> by this.
>
> Are there any objections to transitioning our download server to this
> method?
i think we should keep legacy-utils separate but perhaps we have a tree for
updated os and one for clean os to get to update with just yum or apt or
both so updates can be gotten
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