Re: Why separate GA and updates directories?
On 12/07/09 08:46, Matthew Booth wrote: Does anybody know the reason that Fedora separates GA and updates on its repositories? In case the question's not clear, I mean this: GA: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/ As released. Usually, known to work well together Updates: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/ These update to any of the packages above, if problems happen, it allows a user to downgrade a package(s) from As Released Open to correction. Regards, Frank -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Why separate GA and updates directories?
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 08:46:15 +0100, Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com wrote: Does anybody know the reason that Fedora separates GA and updates on its repositories? In case the question's not clear, I mean this: Probably it's at least partially because it's less work to build the repo only will updates and no having to recompose the GA stuff over and over. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Why separate GA and updates directories?
On 07/12/2009 03:46 AM, Matthew Booth wrote: Does anybody know the reason that Fedora separates GA and updates on its repositories? In case the question's not clear, I mean this: GA: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/ Updates: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/ No idea - clearly the repos are separate so createrepo can be run independently. I think a much clearer way to do this is something like below. My mirror script would simplify enormously if each release had its own tree ... clearly yum, createerepo etc dont care one way or the other. fedora/11 source ... i686 release debug os updates ... x86_64 release debug os updates ... ... gene/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
