Re: [Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

[Adam Holt]

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Adam Holt  wrote:

> Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier
> spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2
> release approaches rapidly :-)
>
>http://download.iiab.io/6.2
>
> (e.g. different directory structures will be considered, so long as
> they're very concise, informative to newbies, and preserve history across
> recent versions etc!)
>
> Meanwhile our main download site should remain http://xsce.org/downloads
> until a possible cutover later...
>
> PS Above Apache 2.2.15 site has a small flaw in that it shows README.html
> automatically (elegant!) but however fails to show any sign of other html
> files like README_clonezilla.html (until I rename these to README.html --
> or I can try to fix httpd.conf if displaying all html files is
> better/urgent?)
>

Fixed: IndexIgnore directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf had been hiding
all files beginning with README

Conclusion: each README.html is both downloadable + immediately viewable
underneath http://download.iiab.io directory listings.
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Re: [Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

[James Cameron]

Too much noise is a good argument.

Solutions can be;

0.  omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time
(check your logs),

1.  use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS,

2.  don't use Apache indexes, but instead use a script or template to
generate friendly HTML with file name, checksum, on one line,

Also, it surprises me you-all aren't using any digital signatures on
the files; but then I think of your user base who wouldn't necessarily
have the time to be able to verify one, let alone an MD5.

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[Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

[Adam Holt]

Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier
spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2
release approaches rapidly :-)

   http://download.iiab.io/6.2

(e.g. different directory structures will be considered, so long as they're
very concise, informative to newbies, and preserve history across recent
versions etc!)

Meanwhile our main download site should remain http://xsce.org/downloads
until a possible cutover later...

PS Above Apache 2.2.15 site has a small flaw in that it shows README.html
automatically (elegant!) but however fails to show any sign of other html
files like README_clonezilla.html (until I rename these to README.html --
or I can try to fix httpd.conf if displaying all html files is
better/urgent?)
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[Server-devel] spring cleaning of http://xsce.org/downloads incl Official Images anybody can make!

[Adam Holt]

FYI lesser-used images have moved from:

   http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/

to:

   http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/other-images/

Meanwhile George Hunt is streamlining the README publication/guidelines
process, so any competent sysadmin can publish their own Internet-in-a-Box
images for broad & very tangible community benefit!

As we increasingly tighten up http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages, our new
publication guidelines spec, as slick downloadable Internet-in-a-Box
install images begin to circulate to new education-centric demographics
very shortly (and we avoid ftp site swamps ;)

These scripts are not 100% finalized yet but FYI as a preview they're very
close (standardize.sh
,
finalize.sh
,
compress.sh
) and
together they will ensure Internet-in-a-Box regional/linguistic/OS
communities have the tightest install images they need, thanks to a civic
IT/librarian culture empowering all:

   1. Follow community DevOps conventions, strengthening our movement
   2. Respect everyone's privacy+security, As Much As Humanly Possible
   3. *Include fun/starter content included right out of the BOX!  Thanks
   especially to Josh Dennis fighting the good fight here, such that new
   implementers/librarians/contributors have an ever-strengthening springboard
   launching their DIY selections of Content Pack upwards ~ rather than
   slapping them back down into the curation-is-too-hard whiners' swamp ;)*

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[Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

[Adam Holt]

Tim's argument that *.img.md5.txt creates too much noise within
http://xsce.org/downloads is fair (e.g. in future http://download.iiab.io)
since we already have *.img.zip.md5 to verify downloads.  Of course we
can't please everyone, but there's a lot of redundancy built in already,
and checking the compressed *.img.zip is in fact faster for all users.

George, Josh, Rick, Anish & All:

Can we modify the social contract for
publishable/promotable/friendly/secure images @
http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages to ditch *.img.md5 ?  Hence removing the
following line 72 from
https://github.com/iiab/iiab-factory/blob/master/box/rpi/cp-sd ?

   md5sum $FILENAME > $FILENAME.md5.txt

PS the .txt suffix remains very wise b/c Apache generally won't display
*.md5
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