[GRASS-dev] Re: releases -> download.osgeo.org

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Feb 10 11:16:18 EST 2008


On Feb 9, 2008 11:12 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hamish:
> > > Apparently both dl.osgeo and grass.osgeo are on the same server,
> > > but for consistency with the rest of osgeo maybe we should keep it
> > > in both places?
> > > (nice to have it on grass.osgeo due to local mirrors)
>
> Markus:
> > yes and yes.
> > Can we do some trick to about duplication of files?
> H:
> > > Are there any cronjobs to be updated or is it manual copy from
> > > grass.osgeo.org/grass63/source/ and friends?
> >
> > That's manual copying.
>
>
> Frank suggested softlinks, but for archival reasons I would lean to
> full copies. Disk space is cheap, and if in years time we move
> grass.osgeo.org to another server which is not shared with
> download.osgeo.org (or dl.osgeo.o moves away from us) I fear the
> softlinks will get broken and not fixed, or at least be a pain to redo
> for old releases.

For now I have copied grass62 and grass63 released to download.osgeo.org.
I heard that the machine gets a new disk soon, currently it's almost full.

The grass54 directory contains a pointer to the grass.osgeo.org directory where
stuff is available.

Markus


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