On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:46:15PM -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: > Yes, certainly. When I have discussed this with the jakarta people, we > have been clear that nightly builds cannot go out to the mirrors. The > other question, however, is whether all the old release (or pre-release) > builds should stay up on the mirrors (as they are for httpd) or if we > should prune down to just current releases. I have mixed feelings about > that.
I tend to think that having them available in the mirrors serves two good purposes: 1) automatic backups of legacy code/binaries 2) it's an O(1) operation -- synch it once and you won't have to ever again. If having to download older distributions presents a bandwidth problem to our mirrors, then maybe we should think about a naming scheme that doesn't cause our mirros to re-download the same files once they move from the main distribution directory to the old/ directories, since that effectively doubles the amount of bytes downloaded to the mirrors. Maybe a "current" symlink to a directory of the correct version. -aaron
