On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:22:58PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which >> means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second >> daily build will automatically overwrite the first each day, but >> I'm going to change the scripts on farbror and bla to keep both, >> as <date>-1 and <date>-2. The arch-latest links will still be kept >> up-to-date to keep external links pointing at the latest build. >> >>Any comments, please let me know... > >Occasionally, in the past, it has happened by accident that there >were two daily builds done on the same day. As you note, the second >one overwrote the first. This caused some confusion as the two were >significantly different in their behavior (at least the one time I'm >thinking of particularly) and it took me a while to figure out that >they were different builds, and I wasn't going crazy! > >So, I ask that you code it is a way that if three or more daily >builds just happen to get done in one day, it won't overwrite >anything. Maybe a name scheme based on the date, hour, and minute of >the build?
The system as it's set up now will increment a build number for each build it does, resetting to 1 again as the day changes. Hopefully that will suffice for you...? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]