[Vectorlinux-devel] Re[2]: [Vectorlinux-devel]

[Jason W. <woo...@ja...>]

Hi guys,

> We do need a pasture directory. Since I'll be doing primary work on
> maintaining the repo, I want to have a place to move the old stuff so
> that it doesn't show up in slapt-get/gslapt, espcially when we've
> updated core packages due to security fixes, etc. We have to avoid
> duplicate versions and/or duplicate packages.
> 
> I can also argue for an unsupported directory, in that it's a place
> where we put software that is no longer being supported by its author,
> etc.

I just wanted to chime in here... and this is somewhat based on the Debian approach:

vl-release - directory for released versions of vector... would be tagged vl-5.5 or some such
vl-security - directory for security updates for the release, tagged vl-5.5-security 

So stable users get two default package sources, the release and security sources.  That way,
the release directory is unaffected by any changes, and security updates are in a specific
location that is easy to check for tools and users alike.  

vl-current - agreed
vl-pasture - this could serve for unsupported packages as well


take care,
jason

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Jason Woodward
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