Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 13:37:29 +0000
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Timo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ter=E4s?= <timo.teras@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] reorganized the package repository structure
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On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:24:53 +0200
Timo Ter=E4s <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

> On 12/03/2010 06:04 PM, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Just a heads up, I have moved the $mirror/alpine/edge/* files into
> > $mirror/alpine/edge/x86/ and created some symlinks so
> > current /etc/apk/repositories should not break. It would be good to
> > insert that x86 in there though. So recommended URL for edge is now:
> >=20
> > http://$mirror/alpine/edge/x86/main
> > http://$mirror/alpine/edge/x86/testing
> >=20
> > In (near?) future we will also have an x86_64 in there.
> >=20
> > There are also a http://$mirror/alpine/edge/x86/releases dir which
> > will be used for edge snapshots.
>=20
> Oh.
>=20
> I was thinking instead that we'd have:
> http://$mirror/alpine/edge/main/x86
> http://$mirror/alpine/edge/testing/x86
>=20
> And that apk could automatically add the x86 or x86_64 based on the
> running architecture. So we'd only put:
> http://$mirror/alpine/edge/main
> http://$mirror/alpine/edge/testing
>=20
> I'd prefer if we would not have to change the apk repositories
> depending on architecture.

Which ofcourse is a good point. I changed it like that but changed it
back again because no existing apk-tools will currently handle that so
all current boxes running edge will break. Not breaking would require me
to maintain symlinks for each package and APKINDEX in edge/main/ that
points to x86 and I dont want that.

So here is what i did in alpine/edge dir:

The dirs that contains the packages:
x86/main
x86/testing
x86_64/main
x86_64/testing

Symlinks that makes sure current running boxes and future apk-tools dont
break:
main -> x86/main
testing -> x86/main

Symlinks that makes the future apk-tools work with edge/main/$arch
x86/main/x86 -> .
x86/testing/x86 -> .
x86/main/x86_64 -> ../../x86_64/main
x86/testing/x86_64 -> ../../x86_64/testing

So now all the following will work:

http://$mirror/alpine/edge/main (main for current x86)
http://$mirror/alpine/edge/main/x86 (main for future x86)
http://$mirror/alpine/edge/main/x86_64  (main for future x86_64)

Same with testing.

So now we just need add the support for $arch in apk-tools.

-nc


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