On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Andy Saxena wrote: > This is specifically with reference to > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames > > "When sid did not exist, the FTP site organization had one major flaw: there > was an assumption that when an architecture is created in the current > unstable, it will be released when that distribution becomes the new stable. > For many architectures that isn't the case, with the result that those > directories had to be moved at release time, chewing up lots of bandwidth." > > Hmmmm...what's an architecture? How is it different from a package or a > distribution?
I would assume that architecture refers to the processor, for instance Debian 3.0 for x86 may become stable before Debian for SPARC or PPC. Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.DissociatedPress.net/ Free Dmitry Skylarov! http://www.freeskylarov.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives." -- John Lennon
