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| author | P. J. McDermott <pehjota> | 2013-07-21 15:36:23 (EDT) |
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| committer | P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net> | 2013-07-21 15:36:23 (EDT) |
| commit | ac1b50e454051b9cd40539e5c871967da9eac076 (patch) | |
| tree | a54ddefb77d59edbb84aae54835c8f87f01ea8d9 /dev | |
| parent | 3bf3d98f3decc5c9f28361de3651295f9a8a95c0 (diff) | |
dev/archive/layout: Improve definitions.
Diffstat (limited to 'dev')
| -rw-r--r-- | dev/archive/layout.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/dev/archive/layout.mdwn b/dev/archive/layout.mdwn index f00933a..b941ee0 100644 --- a/dev/archive/layout.mdwn +++ b/dev/archive/layout.mdwn @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ in the `dev` channel. Distribution ------------ -A **distribution** is a set of components in the package archive with a certain +A **distribution** is a set of feeds in the package archive with a certain release policy and life cycle. There is one rolling release: `trunk`. All other distributions are fixed release series distributions, e.g. `rs1`. @@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ are `dev/trunk` and `rel/rs1`. Platform -------- -A **platform** is a set of architectures in the package archive with packages -configured for a particular use case. +A **platform** is a set of package configurations representing a particular use +case. Architecture ------------ -An **architecture** is a set of packages in the package archive built for a -particular combination of processing units, kernel, and system libraries. +An **architecture** is a particular combination of processing units, kernel, and +system libraries for which packages are built. The `src` architecture contains source packages. |