Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Friday 24 November 2006 15:03 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > I've thought a bit about how to structure - and name - the directories
> > for openSUSE 10.2 and like to get your feedback and suggestions for
> > improvement.
> >
> > Goals
> > =====
> >
> > My goals with the restructuring are:
> > * Clear naming - no misunderstandings
> > * Smaller repositories for faster metadata download
> > * structure should be usable for 10.3 Alphas und final again
> >
> > Separate trees
> > ==============
> >
> > We have several ftp trees (for 10.1: OSS and Non-OSS) and I propose to
> > make smaller repositories for faster download of metadata:
> >
> > * OSS (factory)
> > * NON-OSS (factory-extra)
> > * Debug (factory-debug)
> > * Sources for OSS
> > * Sources for NON-OSS
> >
> > Naming
> > ======
> > * let's use "repository" instead of catalog, inst-source etc.
> >
> > FTP Structure
> > =============
> >
> > ".../distribution/openSUSE-10.2" has the following subdirectories:
> > * isos
> > * repositories
> >
> > "isos" directory has the following subdirectories:
> > * dvd - the DVD5
> > * deltas
> > * non-oss
> > * oss
> > * torrents
> >
> > "repositories" sdirectory has the following subdirectories:
> > * debug
> > * non-oss
> > * oss
> > * source-non-oss - just sources
> > * source-oss - just sources
> >
> > Does this make sense?  Do you have better ideas?
>
> In general please find short names and don't use plural.
> F.e. "iso", not "isos", and "repo", not "repositories", "src", not
> sources", "delta", not "deltas", "torrent", not "torrents".

The reason why we took "repositories" was to reuse existing names on the ftp 
server (pub/opensuse/repositories) and to make it clear that you can not use 
this directory directly. You have to go inside and pick one.

> Maybe also one level higher - "dist" for "distribution".

I would like to avoid a change here, it would cause too much pain for the 
mirrors. (and I personally think longer names are better than short ones for 
most users, who are not famillar with the structure).

> And if cd and dvd images shall not reside within the same directory, the
> names "cd" and "dvd" would be better than "iso" and "dvd".

good point

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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