Re: sourceware.org temp upload dir

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 22 14:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:52:28PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On May 22 12:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:05:29PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote:
> >> >
> >> >any reason why
> >> >/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/cygwin/release
> >> >
> >> >has been removed ?
> >> >
> >> >-bash-4.1$ cd /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/cygwin
> >> >-bash-4.1$ ls -l
> >> >total 2184
> >> >drwxrwsr-x. 4 cgf  cgf       4096 May 14  2012 cvs-mirror
> >> >-rw-rw-r--. 1 cgf  cygwin     774 Mar 19 14:52 Makefile
> >> >drwxrwxr-x. 2 root cygwin    4096 Jun 10  2009 RCS
> >> >-rwxr-xr-x. 1 cgf  cygwin 2220573 Apr 29  2012 setup.exe
> >> >-bash-4.1$
> >> 
> >> Are you asking because you use the get-cygwin-package script or because
> >> you were using it for your own personal uploads?  If it is the former
> >> then that's a problem, I guess (I didn't think anyone was using the
> >> script since it wasn't foolproof).  It is is the latter then you
> >> shouldn't have been using that area to begin with.  It wasn't created
> >> for general use.
> >
> >Uhm... am I the only one here who thought this is *the* general upload
> >directory for Cygwin packages?  Since that's apparently not right, what
> >*is* the general upload directory for Cygwin packages?
> 
> If I check my sent email folder, the only thing that I can see which
> suggests that this directory should be used for general use is email
> from you telling someone to use it.  AFAICT, I created the directory and
> I did so for get-cygwin-package.  My plan was to make this a place for
> automated uploads.  If I told people to use this then I was really
> mistaken.

There's the misunderstanding.  Whatever you actually wrote, I understood
it so that this is the directory meant for any package upload, also manual
ones.

> Your home directory is a fine place for dealing with cygwin uploads,
> especially since the new sourceware places /home in the same partition
> as the ftp area.

Good to know.


Thanks,
Corinna

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