[Vectorlinux-devel] Repo suggestions for discussion

[Jose J. R. <jo...@gm...>]

During the repo overhaul I was doing today I came up with some
suggestions and questions about possible changes to the repo
structure. I'd like to discuss them here:

Suggestions:

- symlink cleanold, makeinfo-slack, makeinfo-slapt from each category
to centralize fixes.
- rename testing/ to unstable/ (this should be for development (cvs,
alpha, beta) versions of apps, libs, etc.)
- create a new, possibly unstructured testing/ category, but only for
temp storage of packages to be checked for correctness.
- rename kdei/ to kdei18/
- unclassified/ should be holding place till decided whether to put in
unstable or extras.
- extras/unclassified/: temp holding place (try not to abuse this).
- unstable/unclassified/: temp holding place (try not to abuse this).
- packages/unclassified/: temp holding place (try not to abuse this).
- move the iso directories outside the package repos, to a
version-separated structure inside a top-level iso/ category.


Questions:

- rename packages to stable ???
- rename base/ to libs/ (because stable/ already means the package is
in the iso and will be used in distro-upgrade, also base and base-apps
would be misleading in extra/ and unstable/) ???
- rename base-apps/ to apps/ (same reason as above) ???

Regards,
Joe1962