Re: Dealing better with CD releases, done partially with 5.0.2a/5.0.3

2009-09-07 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:31:27AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: We currently potentially have a window of a few hours of breakage, as the web pages that point

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote: Thilo Six wrote the following on 15.04.2009 22:20 How about a directory with links to current isos dricetly then? current $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 37 2009-04-15 22:18 current-stable-ARCH-1.iso -

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Hi! Hey! * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: We currently potentially have a window of a few hours of breakage, as the web pages that point directly to the old images stay around for quite a

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:06:25AM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. [..] 1. The Problem [..] The image filenames and the top-level

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. [..] 1. The

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:41:17PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: b. Stop linking directly to the images, and go via redirects. Could maybe be a central cgi, maybe even with intelligence to redirect to good/close/fast/up-to-date mirrors.

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: We then prune most of the old ISO images so we don't waste too much space - older images can be recreated in the future using jigdo if necessary. To the best of my knowledge that would depend on snapshot.debian.net

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: We then prune most of the old ISO images so we don't waste too much space - older images can be recreated in the future using jigdo if necessary. To the best of my knowledge that would depend on snapshot.debian.net being functional because once we release we also

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list

Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about this today on #debian-www and I've come up with a workflow that will improve things, I

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about this today on #debian-www and I've come up with a workflow

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about this today on

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon Paillard and I had

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
Mattias Wadenstein wrote the following on 15.04.2009 19:18 On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken links each time. Simon

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
Thilo Six wrote the following on 15.04.2009 22:20 Mattias Wadenstein wrote the following on 15.04.2009 19:18 On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: b. Stop linking directly to the images, and go via redirects. Could maybe be a central cgi, maybe even with intelligence to redirect to good/close/fast/up-to-date mirrors. Could work, but needs implementing. :-) This sounds like