State of the archive
Daniel Stone
daniel at freedesktop.org
Tue May 2 02:58:57 PDT 2006
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:52:51AM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> There are several things in the archive on annarchy that I'd like to see
> cleaned up before we start mirroring:
>
> - There are subdirs in individual/* where there shouldn't be. For
> example, individual/app/xdpyinfo/ and individual/proto/Randr/. I
> posted a message about this to the list a while back listing the files
> from these subdirs and noting that they could be deleted.
> - The individual/xc dir shouldn't exist.
> - X11R6.8.1-save should not be in the archive -- it was a temporarily
> saved version of an aborted release that was never deleted.
I've cleaned all of these up now.
> - Release candidates are useful during development but should not be
> pushed to FTP mirrors. This could be solved either by adding a new
> dir named "archive/development" for the RCs, which is never mirrored
> to ftp.x.org, or we could create a new "development" archive where RCs
> could be placed (e.g., /srv/xorg.freedesktop.org/development).
Hrm. Can you please explain why, given that we mirror the individual
directory? I don't see why we should avoid mirroring the RCs if we
already mirror the individual directory, unless you're talking about
bandwidth/disk space concerns, which is understandable.
> - The X11R7.0 dir is meant for officially branded packages (i.e., those
> with the release version in the name) while the individual dir is
> meant for the unbranded packages. Unfortunately, the unbranded
> packages were accidentally put into the X11R7.0 dir as well as the
> individual dir. They should be removed from the X11R7.0 branded dir.
I've cleaned these up too.
> - Older releases should be read-only so that they cannot accidentally be
> overwritten -- note that some are already read-only but not all.
Erm, all the non-RC old releases that I could see were read-only. Do
you mean the R* -> X11R* symlinks?
> Since we're cleaning, there are also a few issues with the archive on
> ftp.x.org, which I'd like to see cleaned up on annarchy before we start
> mirroring:
>
> - The dir names are inconsistent and can be made uniform. For example,
> 10R3 becomes X10R3, R4 becomes X11R4, etc. It seems that most of this
> has already been done on annarchy, but I think we might also be able
> to remove the old names.
If this is possible, it would be handy.
> - Contrib.howto is grossly out of date and should be removed.
I already did that.
> - The DOCS dir is not mirrored on annarchy, but it appears to be quite
> old info and probably could be moved to an "OLD" dir. Not sure if we
> want to call the dir "OLD" or something else. Any suggestions?
If it's still useful, sure.
> - The unsupported dir is also quite old but some people might find the
> files there useful. Also a candidate for moving to an "OLD" dir.
Indeed.
> - The top level / files are out-of-date and could be cleaned up.
Which ones -- README, et al?
> Note these changes will cause quite a bit of traffic for the mirrors, so
> I'd like to make sure we're happy with the changes and then make them
> once. After everything is ready to go and tested, we can enable rsync
> mirror. I expect this will probably take a short while to complete, but
> hopefully not too long. I'm happy to help with the clean up.
Looks like most of it's already been done. ;)
> In the mean time, I suggest that the current security patch for 6.9/7.0
> be copied to ftp.x.org, which should address the immediate concern about
> the missing security fix. Also, any other fixes that are missing can be
> handled similarly as needed until the archive on annarchy is ready and
> the mirror is running.
individual/ as well ...
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