Primary Legacy distribution (was: Re: apt/yum configuration?)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:59:23AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Well, you're right, but in order to have all the Legacy packages mirrored
> > > for the various supported distributions, and without mirroring all the
> > > other fedora.us packages, things won't be as easy as they could be.
> > > 
> > > >From what I had understood initially, many people (including me) expected a
> > > clean and simple way to fetch the packages and merge them with (or include
> > > them alongside) the no-longer-updated official updates, and unless I'm
> > > mistaken, it's unfortunately not currently the case.
> > 
> > I'm confused again. Can't you just rsync:
> > 
> > download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/*/i386/RPMS.legacy/
> 
> RPMS.legacy will contain only auto-updating tools and their
> requirements related to Fedora Legacy, such as a newer RPM for RHL 8.0
> and 9, apt and yum.
> 
> RPMS.updates contains all existing RHL updates + future Fedora Legacy
> updates packages.

That makes very much sense.

OTOH this will confuse people. `Want to have Legacy updates? Then go
get "updates" and optionally you may want to use "legacy", but the
latter is not needed. But if you don't use "legacy" you will be
unsupported by the Fedora Legacy team. But don't worry, you can still
have "updates". Hey, why are you running away?'

Maybe fedora.us should become Fedora Updates instead of Fedora Extras
and Fedora Legacy? Or maybe all together?

Confused? Once again? ;)

Anyway I's also vote for a fedoralegacy.org repo not policy inflicted
by "Repository non-mixing" statements. Matthias' layout seems very
reasonable and can be setup in a matter of a few minutes.

Try to keep legacy independent.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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