On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:07:27AM +0100, Pedro Lino wrote: > Hi Ariel > > If new Windows install sets are built for > > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127140 this won't be a new > > release candidate, because there will be no new source code commit, and > > it affects only Windows; so I guess that the current packages will be > > replaced by the new ones using subversion (also new signatures and > > hashes will mismatch). > > > > Yes the RC will be the same, but the file creation date and file size will > be different. On a FTP server it would be easy to see the new date and only > download when there is a new file. > Example: > http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/apache/openoffice/4.1.2/binaries/en-US/ > > I really don't understand why there can't be an FTP server for the RC > releases. > I guess it's one of those Dev only things...
I asked what to do on dev@ and an ASF infra team member answered, so I guess this is how things work at the ASF ;) For the record, there was a time when we uploaded the binaries to people.apache.org (now home.apache.org); this was much faster to upload, and was served by an http server from the users public_html directory (if directory listing was enabled, you could see date and size, like in http://home.apache.org/~arielch/ ). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile
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