Re: Mismatch of guide and binary package directory names?

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

On 08/08, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> writes:
> > 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

Indeed! :-)  That's very easy to see what's going on.  Thanks!

My point here was that it's not obvious what those directories are
to someone who can't do that, and I'm unaware of it being documented
anywhere, so I think it would be good if it could be documented either
in

  https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ftp-layout.html#ftp-packages

or perhaps in the readme of each os-arch directory, e.g., for amd64

  https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/README

Thanks!

Lewis