On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4. Drop keeping metadata in package filenames. Make them just a unique > string, assigned when the package is installed into the archive. > That gets rid of the need to add something to the filename to > distinguish i386 from sparc packages. Just use the Packages files, > and the control fields from the packages themselves. I'd be in > favour of going further: use one Packages file, and determine > available packages based on the tags your kernel and libc support.
Which would lead to the problem, that in the pool/ there would be stuff
like:
pool/main/p/package/:
package_Version-1_abcde.deb
package_Version-1_lsahd.deb
package_Version-1_iorzq.deb
package_Version-1_mbmnb.deb
package_Version-1_poiuz.deb
package_Version-1_mjuhb.deb
Essentially rendering manual download impossible.
This is a question to Marcus Brinkmann:
How can one distinguish
package_1.0-1.deb (i686,glibc,mmx) and
package_1.0-1.deb (sparc,netbsd4)
in the pool (i.e. filesystem)?
I know, in your doc, you don't explicitly specify an 'encoding' for this
dependency information, but people (as simpleminded as I am) would think
about some extra entry in the Depends: field, which wouldn't help much
with filesystemlayout in the mirrors as Philip Charles mentioned in
regard to partial mirrors and things as pointet out above.
Regards, David
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