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Re: packages-map and package names

Erick Branderhorst writes ("packages-map and package names"):
...
> I would like the debian floppy installation to be able to use some
> kind of floppy map. I suggest to add a few field to the Packages.gz
> files, or create a new file named Packages-map.gz.
> 
> The information needed for floppy and other installation can be put in
> a few fields. The information is provided in the most minimal,
> readable way I can think of right now, but other might suggest a more
> efficient way of course. Here are two samples:

I'm afraid I can't tell from your samples what information you're
trying to represent :-).

Can you explain to me briefly what your proposed directory structure
looks like and what the d-008 &c fields mean ?

I think that the way this ought to be done is for a program to run as
part of the nightly cron job on master and decide where the various
parts of packages should go, and then another bit of the cron job can
make the symlinks.

Oh, and uuencoding an awk script seems silly :-).

Ian.