Thilo Six wrote the following on 15.04.2009 22:20 > Mattias Wadenstein wrote the following on 15.04.2009 19:18 > >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >> >>> Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new >>>> CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken >>>> links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about this >>>> today on #debian-www and I've come up with a workflow that will >>>> improve things, I think (see 2c below). Please feel free to point out >>>> what I've missed... :-) >>>> >>>> 1. The Problem >>>> >>>> We generate new CDs and DVDs for each point release. These are >>>> published in the release area of cdimage.debian.org[1]. The image >>>> filenames and the top-level directory are versioned for clarity, and >>>> we add a "current" symlink in the debian-cd directory that points to >>> ^^^^^^^ >>>> the most recent version. We move old trees of images into the archive >>>> area[2] as each new build is published, We then prune most of the old >>>> ISO images so we don't waste too much space - older images can be >>>> recreated in the future using jigdo if necessary. >>>> d. Other ideas? >>> Can't we link to the 'current' images on the webpages? >> Then you can link to the directory with isos for a particular arch and >> type: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ >> >> But not to an actual iso, due to the version number being included there: >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-501-amd64-CD-1.iso >> >> /Mattias Wadenstein >> >> > How about a directory with links to current isos dricetly then? > > current $ ls -l > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 37 2009-04-15 22:18 current-stable-ARCH-1.iso -> > ../ARCH/ISO/debian-501-amd64-CD-1.iso > lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 37 2009-04-15 22:18 current-stable-ARCH-2.iso -> > ../ARCH/ISO/debian-501-amd64-CD-2.iso > >
But that approach obviously puts some more work on you Steve as you would have to rebuild the files: MD5SUMS MD5SUMS.sign SHA1SUMS SHA1SUMS.sign with the appropriate file names i guess. Maybe in that same directory. -- bye Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
