[RFC] Repository layout change -- status update

Paweł Sikora pluto at agmk.net
Tue May 15 20:48:27 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 15 of May 2007 12:51:48 Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Mariusz Mazur <mmazur at kernel.pl> wrote:
> > Ok, after some talks on irc, this is how (the first version of) this
> > solution is going to look like:
> >
> > 'packages' module in our current CVS repo with a flat structure
> > underneath consisting of package '%{name}'s. Like this: 'packages/glibc'
> > or 'packages/kernel'.
> >
> > The idea is also to force having spec file names equal to %{name}. Afaik
> > there are a few instances where such is not the case.
> >
> > Afterwards we can have the glob 'packages/%{name}/%{name}.spec' being
> > true 100% of the time (might come in handy some day).
>
> AFAIK this is true for all non-kernel packages. Kernel module specs
> tend to be named after their tarballs but produce kernel-* packages.

maybe we should change convention and produce subpackage *-kernel
similiar to *-libs, *-devel, etc. ?


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