Re: pkg/54019

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54019; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/54019
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:15:06 -0600

 Looking at the "current, stable, pkgsrc-20xxQy" section of
 
   https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ftp-layout.html
 
 more, I'm wondering if I'm misunderstanding the intent of the first
 paragraph, and it's actually describing what's in each of the current,
 stable, and pkgsrc-20xxQy directories?
 
 If that's the case, then I think this needs to be made more clear.  For
 example, the first sentence of the second paragraph could be replaced
 with
 
   Each of the `current`, `stable`, and `pkgsrc-20xxQy` directories share
   the same structure.  They each contain a `pkgsrc` directory which
   contains a snapshot of their branch of the CVS repository, which is
   updated regularly.
 
 But I still think each directory needs a short sentence to say what it
 is too.  For example:
 
   The `current` directory contains files related to the -current branch
   of the CVS repository.
 
   The `stable` directory is a symlink to the latest `pkgsrc-20xxQy`
   directory.
 
   The `pkgsrc-20xxQy` directories contain files related to the
   -20xxQy branch of the CVS repository.  [Then the sentence about the
   `pkgsrc-20xxQy.tar.gz` file here.]