Re: [Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

2017-04-03 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier > spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2 > release approaches rapidly :-) > >http://download.iiab.io/6.2 > >

Re: [Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

2017-04-03 Thread James Cameron
Too much noise is a good argument. Solutions can be; 0. omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time (check your logs), 1. use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS, 2. don't use Apache indexes, but instead use a script or template to generate friendly HTML with

[Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

2017-04-03 Thread Adam Holt
Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2 release approaches rapidly :-) http://download.iiab.io/6.2 (e.g. different directory structures will be considered, so long as they're very

[Server-devel] spring cleaning of http://xsce.org/downloads incl Official Images anybody can make!

2017-04-03 Thread Adam Holt
FYI lesser-used images have moved from: http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/ to: http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/other-images/ Meanwhile George Hunt is streamlining the README publication/guidelines process, so any competent sysadmin can publish their own

[Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

2017-04-03 Thread Adam Holt
Tim's argument that *.img.md5.txt creates too much noise within http://xsce.org/downloads is fair (e.g. in future http://download.iiab.io) since we already have *.img.zip.md5 to verify downloads. Of course we can't please everyone, but there's a lot of redundancy built in already, and checking