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Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:10:46PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html , > > Current public releases: http://www.apache.org/dist/ > > Releases that are intended for current public download should be placed on > www.apache.org. This is the main public release site and the site that is > mirrored world-wide. [minotaur.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist/] > > So if we only want the latest release there, that's fine, but we'll need to > put up a link to the http://archive.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/ site for > older releases. I think we have that on downloads.html already. The problem is the transition between "current release" and "archived older release" ;) > > However, I think I agree -- leaving the old versions there for > > a short while makes more sense. Take a read over those and see > > what you think. > > I think leaving the most recent 2 stable releases is fine. ok, cool. that sounds good then. (I was under the impression it said "don't do that", I might have misread...) > > There *is* another problem, though -- since the downloads.html/.cgi page > > is on the single un-mirrored site, and the downloads are on the mirrors > > which may be up to 24 hours out of sync, we would still have to use the > > ?update=200409211830 parameter on the downloads.cgi URL to ensure that > > only up-to-date mirrors are used; otherwise the download link will either > > - (a) if it points to Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.1.tar.gz, return a 404 > > - (b) if it points to Mail-SpamAssassin-current.tar.gz, return the old > > file which will not match the checksums, and that's not good. > > I'd rather use the update parameter then risk people getting really confused > with "-current". We already need to push out a new download page with the > latest version on it, so it's not a big deal to update the parameter. yep. any chance you could update the build/README to match the proposed new system? - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBfqsQMJF5cimLx9ARAi+5AJ9gEYR63lTybmy2vPQR7Vo/EhzZBgCgqA86 naAah9VUH4fMbd6DkZh6qtc= =pUgL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
