On Friday 24 November 2006 14:53, Adrian Schröter wrote:
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
It seems wuite intuitive to me. I also prefer longer names, if they are easier to remember and much easier to get some sense out of them, which I think is the case here. Hugo Costelha --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org