HEADSUP MAINTAINERS: flat upload layout

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 15 17:21:00 GMT 2014


On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 10:59 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 12 09:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > While revising the upload structure, please consider folding out the source
> > package (e.g. into no-arch/ or src/) because it's not a convincing burden to
> > have to upload the same package twice.
> 
> Yes, that's something we should certainly contemplate medium-term.

upset doesn't like having the same package in multiple locations, so I'm
not sure if the -src packages can be separate.

However, what I did suggest earlier was to have a separate
noarch/release hierarchy for entirely noarch packages, which would
prevent having to upload noarch twice:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-03/msg00126.html

I do this with Ports and it works quite well, but then again I'm the
only one uploading there.


Yaakov




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