armel in lucid: supported architectures vs. ports

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 12 12:27:12 GMT 2010


On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:19:13PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> > Are the semantics of ports.ubuntu.com documented anywhere?  As far as
> > I'm aware, the primary purpose of the "ports" separation is to keep
> > mirror size manageable.
> 
> I believe Colin's working up a more through reply to this, but
> basically: yes.

I've edited https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive,
which used to contradict the statement above.  Could you please review
it for correctness and clarity?

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Architectures
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Installation%20Media

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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