Re: Dealing better with CD releases, done partially with 5.0.2a/5.0.3

2009-09-07 Thread Simon Paillard
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:31:27AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > >* Steve McIntyre [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: > >> We currently potentially have a window of a few hours of breakage, as > >> the web pages that point directly to the

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:06:25AM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new >> > CD/DVD images, as you'll see from m

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! Hey! >* Steve McIntyre [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: > >> We currently potentially have a window of a few hours of breakage, as >> the web pages that point directly to the old images stay around for >> quite a while. Even

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote: >Thilo Six wrote the following on 15.04.2009 22:20 >>> >> 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 -> >> ../ARC

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > 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. [..] > > >

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > 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. [..] > > 1. The Problem > > [..] The image filenames and the top-level

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, 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 se

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> 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. > > To the best of my knowledge that would depend on snapshot.debian.net > being functional because once we release we a

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Steve McIntyre [2009-04-15 15:36:57 CEST]: > 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. To the best of my knowledge that would depend on snapshot.debian.net being functional

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:41:17PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>b. Stop linking directly to the images, and go via redirects. Could >> maybe be a central cgi, maybe even with intelligence to redirect >> to good/close/fast/up-to-date mirro

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >b. Stop linking directly to the images, and go via redirects. Could > maybe be a central cgi, maybe even with intelligence to redirect > to good/close/fast/up-to-date mirrors. Could work, but needs > implementing. :-) This sounds li

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
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

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
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 y

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, 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 Pa

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:14:52PM +0200, 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 discussi

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
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-ww

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
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 work

Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
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 t