Re: Mismatch of guide and binary package directory names?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I think the pkgsrc guide documents different naming for the binary
> packages hierarchy than what I see on the CDN.
>
> At
>
>   https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ftp-layout.html#ftp-packages
>
> it says the hierarchy is
>
>   OPSYS/ARCH/OSVERSION_TAG

That's mostly how it is.

>   TAG is either 20xxQy for a stable branch, or head for packages built
>   from the HEAD branch.
>
> But on the CDN, e.g., for amd64
>
>   https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/
>
> I see directories like 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1.  What are those?  Are they

They are symlinks, pointing to the latest stable branch for which there
is an ok build.  It's much easier to see this running ls -l on the ftp
machine (which I realize you can't do).  E.g, 

lrwxr-xr-x   1 pkgmastr  netbsd    10 Jul 29 18:57 8.0 -> 8.0_2019Q2
drwxrwxr-x   3 pkgmastr  netbsd   512 Sep 20  2018 8.0_2018Q2
drwxrwxr-x   3 pkgmastr  netbsd   512 Dec 13  2018 8.0_2018Q3
drwxrwxr-x   3 pkgmastr  netbsd   512 Mar 19 18:28 8.0_2018Q4
drwxrwxr-x   3 pkgmastr  netbsd   512 Jun 18 06:30 8.0_2019Q1
drwxrwxr-x   3 pkgmastr  netbsd   512 Jul 29 18:28 8.0_2019Q2