On 03/12/2019 21:14, John Zaitseff wrote:
Name: John Zaitseff
Package: trader
Done. Thanks.
Thank you. When I use sftp to connect to
cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org (as per
the instructions at https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html), I do
not see the file "!packages". Consequently, when I try to upload my
trader package, as soon as I try to copy across any tar file, the
connection is closed. Is the missing "!packages" file an oversight,
or am I simply being too eager and the file will be created in due
course? :-)
The !packages files are updated by a separate process which runs at 0400
UTC daily (mkpkgdir, which is a bit of a misnomer now, as it's only
remaining useful function is to identify for removal the upload
directories of maintainers who have given up all their packages)
But the !packages file is only there for historical and informational
purposes, it's not involved in the upload authorization.
Furthermore, the restriction is not applied to the filenames you can
upload, but to the processing we do on them after the sftp session has
closed, so I think something else must be the cause of your connection
being closed.
