* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:46:40PM CET:
> Erm, the --rmsymlink and --delete options work on all remaining files up
> to the net --rmsymlink, --delete, or -- option. So that -- really needs
> to be there. Or we need to change the semantics of these optinos.
>
> Ok, my mistake. I think that should be pointed out explicitly.
> (See below.)
Thanks, that's a good idea.
> Kind of thinking that all GNU developers should
> be able to test upload functionality there.
>
> That would be ideal, but it seems like a major departure from the way
> uploads work now. I don't want to ask the FSF sysadmins to devote time
> to such an idea.
OK.
> However, it occurs to me that we can ask Sergey if he could easily set
> up such a thing at his hosting site. I'll do that.
Great!
> It's more of a question whether the work required to actually make
> it work exceeds the potential benefits.
>
> Indeed. Anyway, let's not wait to push the new help message, ok?
Yes. I've queued the patch below to the 'maint' branch, to be merged to
branch-1.11 and master soonish (later tonight).
> By the way, is there any documentation anywhere beyond the help message?
> (I'm not volunteering, just wondering. :)
Not yet, but it would be a good idea.
Thanks,
Ralf
2009-11-29 Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org>
Rewrite `gnupload --help' examples.
* lib/gnupload: Use GNU style version numbers, a generic package
name, and more useful examples.
diff --git a/lib/gnupload b/lib/gnupload
index 8320b58..104f8ad 100755
--- a/lib/gnupload
+++ b/lib/gnupload
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Sign files and upload them.
-scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC
+scriptversion=2009-11-29.20; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation
#
@@ -73,34 +73,28 @@ actual command line options. Use this to keep your
defaults. Comments
(#) and empty lines in $conffile are allowed.
Examples:
-1. Upload automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz and automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2 to two sites:
- gnupload --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/automake \\
- --to alpha.gnu.org:automake \\
- automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2
-
-2. Same as above, but also create symbolic links to automake-latest.tar.*:
- gnupload --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/automake \\
- --to alpha.gnu.org:automake \\
- --symlink-regex \\
- automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2
-
-3. Symlink automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz to automake-latest.tar.gz and
-automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2 to automake-latest.tar.bz2 on both sites:
+1. Upload foobar-1.0.tar.gz to ftp.gnu.org:
+ gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:foobar foobar-1.0.tar.gz
- gnupload --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/automake \\
- --to alpha.gnu.org:automake \\
- --symlink automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz automake-latest.tar.gz \\
- automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2 automake-latest.tar.bz2
+2. Upload foobar-1.0.tar.gz and foobar-1.0.tar.xz to ftp.gnu.org:
+ gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:foobar foobar-1.0.tar.gz foobar-1.0.tar.xz
-4. Delete automake-1.8.2a.tar.gz and .bz2, remove symlink
-automake-latest.tar.gz and upload automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz:
-
- gnupload --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/automake \\
- --to alpha.gnu.org:automake \\
- --delete automake-1.8.2a.tar.gz automake-1.8.2a.tar.bz2 \\
- --rmsymlink automake-latest.tar.gz \\
- -- \\
- automake-1.8.2b.tar.gz automake-1.8.2b.tar.bz2
+3. Same as above, and also create symbolic links to foobar-latest.tar.*:
+ gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:foobar \\
+ --symlink-regex \\
+ foobar-1.0.tar.gz foobar-1.0.tar.xz
+
+4. Upload foobar-0.9.90.tar.gz to two sites:
+ gnupload --to alpha.gnu.org:foobar \\
+ --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/foobar \\
+ foobar-0.9.90.tar.gz
+
+5. Delete oopsbar-0.9.91.tar.gz and upload foobar-0.9.91.tar.gz
+ (the -- terminates the list of files to delete):
+ gnupload --to alpha.gnu.org:foobar \\
+ --to sources.redhat.com:~ftp/pub/foobar \\
+ --delete oopsbar-0.9.91.tar.gz \\
+ -- foobar-0.9.91.tar.gz
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
Send patches to <automake-patc...@gnu.org>."
