On 6/12/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Having now done a release, I have a couple of suggestions/questions > about the release procedure. > > === > > The dist directories currently have symbolic links named "..current.." > that point to the actual files in the binary and source subdirs. > > Is there actually any justification for keeping these? If someone were > to download via these links, then the saved file doesn't have the > version# in it, which doesn't seem to something we should encourage. And > it is a nuisance to create the symlinks. It seems easier to me to just > do away with them.
This is a stated requirement of the mirroring system. See: http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html http://www.apache.org/dev/mirror-step-by-step.html If you want to change this, then you'd need to take it up with the infrastructure folks. > === > > My understanding of the "archive" procedure is as follows. I would like > to add this info into the release procedure documentation so if I have > misunderstood anything, please correct me. > > The contents of people.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist directory > gets replicated to all the apache mirrors. Note that if a file is > deleted from this directory tree then it will be deleted from the > mirrors. > > The contents is also automatically copied to > people.apache.org:/www/archive.apache.org/dist which then gets rsync'd > to http://archive.apache.org. Note, however, that if a file is deleted > from /www/www.apache.org/dist then it is *not* deleted > from /www/archive.apache.org/dist, and therefore remains available at > http://archive.apache.org. > > Having very old files under www.apache.org/dist wastes mirror diskspace, > so it is good practice to delete files that are unlikely to be in > significant demand. In general, when doing a release, the files > associated with a release older than 2 years should be deleted at the > same time. These files will still remain available via > archive.apache.org. > > There is no need to manually update anything in /www/archive.apache.org; > this automatically updates from the main distribution directory, and > files should never be deleted from it. Seems reasonable. -- Martin Cooper > === > > Regards, > > Simon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
