Leap 15.0 oss repo w/odd location (boot/x86_64) for a font repo in primary.xml

6 Mar 2021

      In the repodata dir for the oss repo, the primary.xml
file usually lists all the packages and their locations for that repo.
In the repo D/l area, its listed as some long hex#
"<hex#>-primary.xml.gz" in the "oss/repodata/" dir.  The rpm
package referred to is has name "arphic-uming-fonts"
of type "noarch".

Files in the oss repo are in the x86_64 or noarch subdirs.

One file, a chinese font file (that usually would be under 'noarch')
is under "oss/boot/x86_64/".

1) why is a file in the oss repo referring to a "boot" dir?
2) why is a font under an x86_64 dir (under a boot dir) instead
   of a 'noarch' dir?
  2a) Does it have executable code in the rpm package? (unlikely)
    But why, at least, not under "boot/noarch", but that is given
    that it is also under some dir named 'boot'.  Weird location:

      <location href="boot/x86_64/arphic-uming-fonts.rpm"/>

I don't know about anyone else, but if I look for a pkg in a distro,
I usually look under 'oss/x86_64|noarch', never
under 'oss/boot/x86_64' for a package with no ver/rel in its
pathname. Other data in primary.xml indicates it's version is:
  <version epoch="0" ver="0.2.20080216.1" rel="lp150.1.7"/>

Anyway, likely no big deal, but seemed odd.

L A Walsh

Carlos E. R.

Marcus Meissner

Andrei Borzenkov

L A Walsh

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