On 4/18/02 at 7:35 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bin/ tree in cvs serves the following purposes: > > * Tracking of updates (change-log, notes, notification of new > files, etc.) (Note: a ftp repository wont give us any of this.)
It can. See ftp.kernel.org > * Facilitates developer coordination on package and > release/branch updates. The Debian project has a stated maintainer in charge for each package; why not us? > * Fixes the problem that users are unable to locate files in our > /devel directory on the shell server. Central FTP server > * Fixes the problem of a user trying to use an old package/image > because they're unaware of a newer one. Central FTP server. > * Allows us to bring our shell quota in line with SF > requirements (1G hard, 512M allocated, > and current usage is 1.3G). To me, personally, this sounds like The Real Reason this is being done.... > If it was this trivial to accomplish it would have been > done already. As I stated above, an ftp directory offers > none of the tracking or coordination capabilities of cvs. > Additionally, it doesn't solve the problem of us exceeding > our quota on the SF shell server. As I said, the former can be solved easier elseways and the latter sounds logical. > For example, just take a look at the > /pub/packages/test.txt. It's a perfect example of why your > proposed solution doesn't work. There are many old > packages that have been updated by another project member, > but the old package remains to confuse our users. I see... However, for a quick and easy fix, you could do thus: find . -name "*.lrp" | xargs ls -l | \ sed 's/\([^ ^I]*\)$/<a href="http:\/\/leaf.sf.net\/\1">&<\/a>/' \ > index.html It isn't necessarily best, but it shows what you can do - and its quick and easy. Another thing to note - there are plenty of packages that have the same name, but serve different purposes or have different arrangements. Just like there are multiple PPP servers, or multiple PPPoE agents, or whatever, there may be multiple ppp.lrp files.... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
