Re: [gentoo-releng] Pending mirror layout changes

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:14, John Davis wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi all -
> In order to accomodate different profiles and to keep our mirrors
> organized, we are changing the layout a bit.
>
> Currently, all experimental release stuff is dumped under a toplevel
> $arch directory like so:
> http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/experimental/$arch/{livecd,stages}
>
> To clean this up, klieber, beejay, and myself decided to go to a scheme
> that is more accomodating:
>
> http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/experimental/$arch/{livecd,stages}/$subarch/profile

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to first divide by hardware, then
by content, then by hardware again ... instead I'd do all the hardware
division first. For example,
experimental/$arch/$subarch/{livecd,stages}/profile