On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 18:32 -0700, Martin Cooper wrote: > On 6/12/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Having now done a release, I have a couple of suggestions/questions > > about the release procedure. > > > > === > > > > The dist directories currently have symbolic links named "..current.." > > that point to the actual files in the binary and source subdirs. > > > > Is there actually any justification for keeping these? If someone were > > to download via these links, then the saved file doesn't have the > > version# in it, which doesn't seem to something we should encourage. And > > it is a nuisance to create the symlinks. It seems easier to me to just > > do away with them. > > This is a stated requirement of the mirroring system. See: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html > http://www.apache.org/dev/mirror-step-by-step.html > > If you want to change this, then you'd need to take it up with the > infrastructure folks.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll leave this as is then. > > > === > > > > My understanding of the "archive" procedure is as follows. I would like > > to add this info into the release procedure documentation so if I have > > misunderstood anything, please correct me. > > > > The contents of people.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist directory > > gets replicated to all the apache mirrors. Note that if a file is > > deleted from this directory tree then it will be deleted from the > > mirrors. > > > > The contents is also automatically copied to > > people.apache.org:/www/archive.apache.org/dist which then gets rsync'd > > to http://archive.apache.org. Note, however, that if a file is deleted > > from /www/www.apache.org/dist then it is *not* deleted > > from /www/archive.apache.org/dist, and therefore remains available at > > http://archive.apache.org. > > > > Having very old files under www.apache.org/dist wastes mirror diskspace, > > so it is good practice to delete files that are unlikely to be in > > significant demand. In general, when doing a release, the files > > associated with a release older than 2 years should be deleted at the > > same time. These files will still remain available via > > archive.apache.org. > > > > There is no need to manually update anything in /www/archive.apache.org; > > this automatically updates from the main distribution directory, and > > files should never be deleted from it. > > Seems reasonable. And matches the contents of the mirroring links you list above. So I'll add this info. Thanks for your very helpful reply. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
