sebb wrote on Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:17:15 +0000: > On 26 February 2012 18:39, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > Andy Seaborne wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 17:37:49 +0000: > >> 3/ > >> > >> [[ > >> Often symbolic links are created from the root of the project > >> distribution directory to the latest version of each release. This > >> allows scripts or users to easily locate the latest release. > > AIUI, this is a bad idea, because: > - the links are frequently not updated > - they don't work for mirrors, which means the mirrors space usage increases > - when the file is downloaded using the link, the file name does not > include the version information > > Users will normally get the latest release from the download page, so > the only possible use is for scripts. > > >> ]] > >> > >> is at odds with > >> > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/mirror-step-by-step.html > >> [[ > >> 9. Do not use symbolic links in mirrored directories! > >> ]] > >> although that does say "Note: This file contains out-of-date information." > >> > > > > That refers to the suggestion to ssh www. But yeah, I can assure you > > that until a few weeks ago no one (PMC or podling) used symlinks in that > > matter, and even today there exists only one such link in the entire > > dist/ tree. > > Huh? > > The use of symlinks under /www/www.apache.org/dist is unfortunately > still quite common. > > pwd dist : pwd > /www/www.apache.org/dist > pwd dist : find . -type l -name "*current*.asc" -ls | wc -l > 77
deltacloud/stable is only symlink that cron complain about. (Feel free to compare it between archive and dist.) It's on root@'s todo list, somewhere, to make those complaints stop. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
