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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.
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