Subject: Re: NetBSD ftp directory tree
To: Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk <pp@kv.net.pl>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/07/2006 12:59:08
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:33:59AM -0600, Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk wrote:
> My suggestions:
> 1) Why not reverse sequence of namings starting with: /pub/ARCH/....?

I think this is a good idea.  When people are looking for binary packages,
they are not primarily interested in what pkgsrc *branch* the packages are
built from, but for what *arch* they are built for, and in the second place
for what NetBSD *version*.  So a useful directory structure for binary
packages would be:
	/pub/NetBSD/packages/$arch/NetBSD-$version/pkgsrc-$branch.
This also makes it much easier for admins to see which package sets can be
removed when they're out-dated (i.e. you could remove a pkgsrc-2006Q1 set
of packages only when there is a pkgsrc-$newer set of packages for the same
arch/version combination.

	Geert