2 sounds ok to me.  Did we ever decide if we wanted to use something like a
"current" or "latest" symlink?
-Andy

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> I just discovered a problem with the vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh
> scripts
> bundled with 2.4.2.  When we decided to move to putting all release files
> under a directory named after the version number when placing files at
> www.apache.org/dist/vcl, I didn't get the scripts updated to include the
> version number in the path from which they download the archive and
> signatures
> (i.e. they are downloading from /dist/vcl instead of /dist/vcl/2.4.2).  We
> have 2 options for fixing this:
>
> 1) release 2.4.3 with the paths included
> 2) copy the files that are under www.apache.org/dist/vcl/2.4.2 to
> www.apache.org/dist/vcl
>
> I'd prefer not to do yet another release (option 1).
>
> Regarding options 2, we decided to put all of the files under a version
> number
> because vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh don't have version numbers in the
> filenames, and would thus keep getting updated in the /dist/vcl directory
> with
> each release, which could trigger an attack alert since the files would be
> modified.
>
> I think we'd be safe to copy all of the files from /dist/vcl/2.4.2 to
> /dist/vcl for one release.  Since vcl-install.sh and vcl-upgrade.sh are not
> currently in /dist/vcl, I don't think we'll trigger any alerts.  Then, for
> the
> next release, we'd have things fixed to be downloading from the correct
> URLs.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Josh
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