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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 05:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>
To: GOMEZ Henri <hgomez@slib.fr>
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Subject: Re: Apache RPM Distributions - Was: RPMs for jakarta and xml projects  
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> >Ok, scratch that, I just checked some of the mirror sites and they
> >are not picking up the ant stuff because of the symbolic link, so
> >maybe symbolic links are a no-go.

I would recommend against symlinks at any rate; not only do they cause
mirrors/caches to duplicate data, they're usually a sign of sloppy design.
They're useful primarily as a crutch to aid in migrations.  I would
re-examine the principles that suggest that duplicate URL's to the same
data is a good idea.

> If we can't use symlink, we'll have to duplicate datas, which is
> allways a bad solution. We could imagine a cron task to recopy
> stuff from /www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/ to /dist/jakarta.

Seems to me that anything under a URL with "builds" in it should be
considered different than "releases" - builds are things that are either
automatically generated from cron or candidates built by humans to be
considered releases, but once declared as an actual end-user release,
should be put somewhere else.

MHO, of course.

	Brian


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