[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names

Manuel Hiebel manuel at hiebel.eu
Sun Nov 20 20:50:39 CET 2011


Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 19:43 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> The media names on Mageia 1 and Cauldron currently look like this, when
> added with urpmi.addmedia --distrib :
>  Core Release
>  Core Release Debug
>  Core Updates
>  Core Updates Debug
>  Core Backports
>  Nonfree Release
>  Core 32bit Release
>  Core 32bit Updates
>  ...
> 
> I suggest we replace them on Cauldron and later versions with names
> like this :
> 
>  cauldron/x86_64/core/release
>  cauldron/x86_64/debug/core/release
>  cauldron/x86_64/core/updates
>  cauldron/x86_64/debug/core/updates
>  cauldron/x86_64/core/backports
>  cauldron/x86_64/nonfree/release
>  cauldron/i586/core/release
>  cauldron/i586/core/updates
>  ...
> 
> I think it's better because :
>  - it doesn't have spaces, so doesn't need to be quoted in urpmi command lines
>  - doesn't have capitals, so easier to type right
>  - includes version of Mageia, so you can quickly see which version(s)
>    you're using
>  - match the paths on the mirrors, so I think it's more clear what the
>    media is and easier to remember
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
Look also at this one: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021
I'am sure we can improve it

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Manuel Hiebel
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