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 -- 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
