On Tue, 15 May 2001, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Eric Faurot wrote:
>
> >Christoph Egger writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > The cvs-snapshots at ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi/ggi-snapshots
> > > are obseleted and the creation process seems to be broken.
> > >
> > > Is anyone here, who can fix the creation process up to create the
> > > snapshots from the SourceForge CVS, please?
> >
> >I can do that, but is it really necessary? I mean what do you use the
> >snaspshots for?
> >
> snapshots are good for people who want to download the most recent
> sources without using cvs.
> A snapshot script should therefor be a crontab job that checks out from
> cvs, checks whether there
> are any differences to the last version, and if so generate a snapshot.
>
> here is the relevant part of a Makefile we use to generate snapshots as
> well as diffs
> on sourceforge (for berlin). It does the following:
>
> * cvs update the current root
> * rename it to 'berlin-15-05-01'
> * compare it to yesterdays version
> * if there are no changes, stop
> * else make a snapshot as well as a diff package
> * move both to the ftp directory
> * relink 'berlin-current' to the latest version
> PS: again, I do think that the best place for this is sourceforge. You
> may have mirrors, though.
Your script might not work forever at sourceforge, because you don't
remove old snapshots. You haven't noticed yet, that the available
diskspace at sourceforge (http and ftp together) is limited to 100MB
by quotas, have you?
CU,
Christoph Egger
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