At 10:13 AM 11/26/2002, Joshua Slive wrote: >On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > >> Folks, given that httpd is "mirrored worldwide" and not all mirrors are >> actually rsyincing the ".old" directory (or anything that starts with a . >> for what that matters), can you change the link in "README.html" to point to >> "http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/.old"; instead of just a relative to >> ".old"? > >Actually, there is no dist/httpd/.old; the .old directory that Maarten is >refering to is the one for the win32 binaries in >dist/httpd/binaries/win32/.old. Unfortunately, there is no way to point >this at www.apache.org at the moment, since everything under binaries is >redirected to nagoyar. > >Solutions: > >1. Undo the redirect, partially or completely. > >2. Remove the "." from ".old".
+1 to this. >3. Remove the link entirely and tell people not to use the old version. Tried and failed [that was what we *hoped* folks would do.] The fact is that old binaries are requested by folks trying to bind a particular module or whatnot. But what about insecure packages? Should those go *poof* permanently? Bill
