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 some discussion about this >>> today on #debian-www and I've come up with a workflow that will >>> improve things, I think (see 2c below). Please feel free to point out >>> what I've missed... :-) >>> >>> 1. The Problem >>> >>> We generate new CDs and DVDs for each point release. These are >>> published in the release area of cdimage.debian.org[1]. The image >>> filenames and the top-level directory are versioned for clarity, and >>> we add a "current" symlink in the debian-cd directory that points to >> ^^^^^^^ >>> the most recent version. We move old trees of images into the archive >>> area[2] as each new build is published, 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. >>> d. Other ideas? >> Can't we link to the 'current' images on the webpages? > > We do, but the image names themselves change from one release to the > next too.
Well then it should probably use an existing tag (like current_release_lenny which contains '5.0.1') that needs to be updated for the point release anyway IMHO. Someone added 3 extra tags which is not very maintainable IMHO. Note that it's easy to convert 5.0.1 to 501 in eperl... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org