Subject: Re: maintaining binary pkgs on the ftp server
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD@pandora.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/04/2007 15:13:26
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:27:27 +0200
Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >  * document what's there, answering questions like
> >     - where can I find latest binary pkgs for NetBSD/i386 4.0
> >     - where can I find latest binary pkgs for Solaris 9/x86
> >     - where can I find (any) binaries from pkgsrc-2007Q2
> 
> As a general scheme, I suggest
> 
>      /pub/pkgsrc/${OPSYS}/${OSVERSION}/${ARCH}/${TAG}/All

I'd prefer something like 
/pub/pkgsrc/${OPSYS}/${ARCH}/${OSVERSION}_${TAG}/All

This makes it easier to find the best possibility if there is no
perfect match for the OS version/branch you have/want.

dieter


> ${TAG} would be either 200yQq or current-200ymmdd. That is, each "All" 
> directory has some tag associated with it. (Currently, we have some 
> directories where this isn't the case.)
> 
> Roland
>