Re: [Cooker] Duplicated noarch package on mirrors

[Ron Stodden]

Daniel Serodio wrote:
> 
> On 2001.03.16 09:12:32 -0300 Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > All noarch packages are duplicated on mirrors for i586, sparc and alpha
> > trees. Why not have a dedicated noarch tree ?
> 
>         Why not use a symbolic link?

Symbolic links are not viable for ftp.  Most ftp utilities will not
handle them.

Windows for example has no such thing, and you would want to be able
to download to a Windows system, wouldn't you?

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Regards,

Ron. [au]