Jesse Keating wrote : > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 05:04 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > > So.... What is this unified across all platforms srpm repo you speak > > of, and how does it differ from what we've been doing internally for > > about 4 years? ;o) > > That was my blog. What we have now once the packages are all built and > we want to make an installable tree set, we build one binary package set > and one source package set for each arch. As you say, the srpms are > common across all the platforms, but there are some packages that only > get included on one arch or another. This causes the srpm isos to not > be exactly the same and unlinkable. To save space / time I am modifying > our tree building software to create ONE master srpm package / cd set > from all the srpms uses across all the arches we ship (in fedora thats > i386, x86_64, and ppc). So instead of each arch havning a SRPMS/ dir > and a SRPM CD set, there will be one top level sources/ dir that has a > global SRPMS/ dir and an iso dir with isos made from the unified SRPMS. This is great news, and will make the mirror admins happy, especially since last I checked there were only two or three packages differing between the i386 and x86_64 source CDs... and I doubt there are more than another handful for ppc :-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 Load : 0.58 0.52 0.73 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
