On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:59:27AM -0400, Adam Jeanguenat wrote: > On 2012-10-04 at 08:35:32 -0400, Adam Jeanguenat wrote: > > On 2012-10-03 at 23:24:40 +0200, Markus Lude wrote: > > > > > > IIRC this URL is only valid until a newer version is released. The > > > older tarball isn't available any more with this. > > > > Not to worry; this should be okay. I tried several older versions > > before recommending this change, as I also use it extensively in > > documentation. > > > > I also just tried every release back to 2.9.0.4 (released Feb 2011) > > using that URL scheme and each still points to the correct version. > > Those are just redirects to the AWS storage, and more likely -- in my > > experience -- to remain active than the previously-used URLs. > > As a point of clarification, I spoke with Joel Esler at Sourcefire and > he said he would ensure the web team keeps the snort-current URL scheme > around and functioning, as it has been for some time now. > > Alternatively, he mentioned FreeBSD's use of the Sourceforge site for > downloads. Perhaps using SF for net/snort and net/daq while keeping the > snort.org site as a backup would be desirable. (For reference, NetBSD is > only using the snort.org URL scheme.) > > Everything works as committed now (and will for the foreseeable future), > but if you'd like to use SF instead as a primary, the attached diff > works perfectly against currently-committed code. > > --avj Hi,
I think we could keep it as it is now. If it makes problems sometime in the future, we could add the sourceforge URL as fallback. Thanks, Adam. Regards, Markus
