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FS#6799 - packages.txt

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Juan Diego (juantascon) - Tuesday, 03 April 2007, 17:07 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 30 September 2007, 11:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hi
i'm not sure if the packages.txt is used by pacman but in the "current" repository this file is in(for ftp.archlinux.org mirror):
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686/setup/packages.txt

while the others repositories has that file in:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repos/os/i686/packages.txt

why in the current repos the file is in the subdirectory "setup" or even better why in the others repos the file is not in the subdirectory?
it will be more easy to make an script to get that file for each repos(without using rsync)

PD: thanks for your great distro i just love it
bye
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 11:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 13 September 2007, 05:18 GMT
Adding our de-facto release guy in here. Tobias, can you answer this?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 13 September 2007, 05:45 GMT
setup searches for packages.txt in setup/ subdirectory
i don'T know exactly why this decision was made by Judd in the beginning of Archlinux.
the reason atm is because setup uses this path.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 13 September 2007, 15:17 GMT
Do you know why the other repositories _don't_ use a setup dir? Can we unify this somehow? I assume that's the real FR here.

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