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Subject: | RE: Setup/prev/curr/test/metapackages/another screen/etc |
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Date: | Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:11:07 +1100 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:40 PM > It's an interesting idea but I don't like glumping what used > to be prev/curr/test with the concept of packages or meta > packages. You lose some functionality that way. Yes. > I really wish we had never even come up with the concept of > prev/curr/test. Maybe the prev release should be a > completely separate release, ditto test. Yes. This is how I've been suggesting they get managed for a while now. Not to the same extent of separation that debian has, but separate. > test/latest > test/contrib > > curr/latest > curr/contrib > > prev/latest > prev/contrib I think that the file locations are orthogonal to the versions considered 'active' in test/curr/prev. Debian (to use the old example), once had fully separate directories, but changed to be a single directory structure, with separate indexes - and those indexes are ~= setup.ini. Rob
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