New mirror layout for the merged core and extras

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 21:25:42 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating said the following on 04/05/2007 01:59 PM Pacific Time:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:47:12 Roland McGrath wrote:
>> The final tree picture on the page shows all of:
>>
>>         core/development
>>         development
>>         extras/development
>>
>> are those supposed to be:
>>
>>         core/development -> ../development
>>         development
>>         extras/development -> ../development
>>
>> ?  Or else, what does it mean?  We're not going to have both merged and
>> unmerged copies of all the development/ contents on mirrors are we?
> 
> For a period of time, the core/development and extras/development content will 
> stick around as it was last updated.  This will allow mirrors to have 
> something to hardlink against for the new merged content in 
> linux/development.  After a short time, the core/development will become a 
> symlink to linux/development as will extras/development become a symlink to 
> the same place, for a period of time before the directories are expunged all 
> together.
> 


Why do we need the parent "linux" directory if it only has one child?  Seems to me that getting rid of it would be a nice think like happened to RPMS on the install disks.

John




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list