On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:57:43PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
>
> > One suggestion for being able to have testing images that are just a
> > simple repoint away from actual release would be to have a similar setup
> > in the debian-cd dir as the main archive:
> >
> > debian-cd/
> > woody/
> > sarge/
> > stable -> woody
> > testing -> sarge
> >
> > And then just repoint the stable link at release time.
>
> And in each of these directories:
> images/3.0_r1/hppa/
> .../arm/
> ...
> jigdo/3.0_r0/i386/
> ../arm/
> ...
> /3.0_r1/i386/
While we're at it, what about distribution of weekly snapshots? With
new-style long filenames (say, "debian-sarge-030711-alpha-binary-1.iso"),
rsyncing them will be very inefficient, and I doubt the mirrors will want
to download all the data again every week.
Possibilities:
1) Continue to use old-style names ("woody-i386-1.iso")
2) Only release as .jigdo files
3) Only release on one server, don't bother mirroring
My preference is 2), but as usual I'm biased... :-)
Another issue is to distinguish testing-but-just-about-to-be-released
images from weekly testing snapshot images in a clear way - how? Or were
you thinking of distributing the weekly snapshots in sarge/? If so, the
images would have to be renamed on release... :-/
Cheers,
Richard
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