Subject: Re: layout of pkgsrc in ftp.netbsd.org
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/22/2005 16:00:18
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:57:31PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:32:58PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > in /pub/pkgsrc/2005Q3 I find:
> > 
> > ftp> ls
> > 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||53062|)
> > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
> > total 51890
> > drwxr-xr-x  52 srcmastr  netbsd      1536 Dec 22 08:14 pkgsrc
> > -rw-r--r--   1 srcmastr  netbsd  14252053 Sep 26 22:36 pkgsrc-2005Q3.tar.bz2
> > -rw-r--r--   1 srcmastr  netbsd  19577956 Sep 26 22:36 pkgsrc-2005Q3.tar.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 srcmastr  netbsd  19236824 Dec 17 07:41 pkgsrc.tar.gz
> > 226 Transfer complete.
> > 
> > So, what's the difference between pkgsrc-2005Q3.tar.gz and pkgsrc.tar.gz ?
> 
> pkgsrc-2005Q3.tar.gz is the initial archive from when the branch was
> created.  pkgsrc.tar.gz is the latest (daily) snapshot.

OK, this makes sense. Thanks! Maybe the filename could be improved like
pkgsrc-2005Q3-stable.tar.gz or something like that?

Bye	Pavel