[GRASS-user] GRASS on Ubuntu

[Paul Kelly]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Hamish wrote:
>
>> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to get upload access for binaries on the GRASS
>>> site?
>> 
>> If you have write access to the grass6/ CVS, you also have write access to 
>> the
>> web/ dirs.
>> 
>> http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/web/grass63/binary/macosx/
>> 
>
> Ah, right.  It's been a while since I worked in the web area.
>
> So, using the linux downloads as a sample, it appears that if there is a 
> README.html, the folder contents are shown before the README.html.  Though I 
> don't see any binaries in CVS, is that really where I would put them?

No - in general only text files and small images and such go in the web 
CVS. When I've prepared binaries and source tarballs in the past I used to 
upload them to Markus' FTP server and ask him to copy them over to the 
webserver, but AFAIK it isn't running any more so the last time (5.4.1 
release in the summer) I put the files on my own FTP server and asked him 
to copy them across.

> Or is there a definitive description of how that works?

There's not sure but there's at least a convention as to which files go in 
the CVS and which are manually copied over - look at some of the other 
binaries directories in CVS and compare them to what's actually there on 
the webserver to get an idea.

Hope that points you in the right direction.

Paul