Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-01 Thread Michael K. Johnson
Ian Murdock writes: ther have to have separate Incoming directories for all supported architectures, or we'll have to have a naming scheme for all Incoming binary packages (prepending a dash and the architecture name, for example) that can be easily resolved before the packages are moved.

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-21 Thread Michael K. Johnson
Bill Mitchell writes: The most reasonable approach seems to me (of course) to be the one which I've been arguing -- a naming standard very close to current practice, minimizing package renaming, and minimizing mangling of upstream naming and versioning. Let me throw another idea in the pot. A

Re: coming soon

1995-12-16 Thread Michael K. Johnson
David Engel writes: 3. /etc/rc[0-6].d will move to /etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d to match the practice on other Linux systems. Symbolic links will provide compatibility with the old locations. Is this really necessary ? Real SysV's do things the way we have done. I can make

Re: debian-1.0 availability

1995-12-10 Thread Michael K. Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Leslie writes: Robert I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu Robert doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers Robert debian-1.0. It's getting jucier by the minute: This domain has a local wuarchive mirror.