Re: stable gnome sources

[Sean Thomas Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

I think the GNOME site could do well with a few well written cron job
scripts... like one that automatically searched all the package dirs, finds
the newest file, and if it's not in the latest source directory, delete the
old one from there and copy/link the new one.  Then package maintainers
wouldn't have to do anything.  I strongly believe in putting LOTS of work
into getting something to be done for you (it makes life easier in the
future), so I would offer my talents, but I haven't the slightest idea how to
mess with cron, nor do I have the GNOME server to play around with.  So maybe
an administrator could do it?

Sean Middleditch

Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Thomas Middleditch [mailto:sean.middleditch@iname.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:17 AM
> > To: Gregory Leblanc
> > Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: Re: stable gnome sources
> >
> >
> > I don't think that's what he meant...
> >
> > I think he wantd a directory that had no subdirectories and contained
> > ONLY the latest tarballs of source packages... so he could for example
> > type ncftpget ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest/sourcelist and get
> > all the latest source tarballs, and only the latest sourcetarballs.
>
> Well, that's what it's SUPPOSED to be, and <rant> the FTP site maintainers
> do a crappy job of keeping things up to date.</rant>  I've volunteered a
> couple of times, since it's a minute ammount of effort to keep it current,
> and probably only a couple of hours of work to get it there.
>
> [snip]
>         Greg
>
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