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RE: Setup/prev/curr/test/metapackages/another screen/etc
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:11:07 +1100
- Subject: RE: Setup/prev/curr/test/metapackages/another screen/etc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cygwin-apps@cygwin.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