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RE: [cross-project-issues-dev] Mirrors and links

Also note, that if you symlink updates/ to 3.3/updates,
and if updates/ is built into the feature.xml's you have
out in the field, your existing 3.2 customers will no
longer be able to get maintenance patches through "search
for updates".

I think that keeping update sites separate makes sense when
one thinks that updating from version X to version Y cannot
be done automatically because the versions are "too incompatible".

Otherwise, merging the contents of the update sites and having
categories like "Buckminster 3.2" / "Buckminster 3.3" in your
site.xml is the preferrable solution.

TM is not doing that yet but we'll be moving to this scheme.

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Nick Boldt
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:53 PM
> To: Cross project issues
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Mirrors and links
> 
> download.eclipse.org, for example, does not permit apache (anonymous
> web users) to follow symlinks. (Trust me, I've tried, opened a bug,
> and been WONTFIXed for security reasons.) You can symlink the
> filesystem to your heart's content, but only the actual path can be
> found via the website. Note that
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/path/with/
> symlinks/to/file
> also doesn't work.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick
> 
> On 7/4/07, Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > a few weeks ago I thought about a similar thing; in 
> principle it should work,
> > at least the symbolic link will be mirrored by the rsync 
> script to all of the
> > mirror.
> >
> > But the problem is the webserver (or ftp server) 
> configuration. Our mirror
> > would allow such a symbolic link, but you never can be sure 
> that other
> > mirrors have such a user-friendly (insecure?) configuration.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 15:16, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > We have one update site where we maintain 3.2.x 
> compatible versions of
> > > Buckminster and one where we release for Eclipse 3.3.x. I 
> would like to
> > > have a layout that involves a symbolic link:
> > >
> > > 3.2/updates
> > > 3.3/updates
> > > updates -> 3.3/updates (or whatever is current)
> > >
> > > will such a link be mirrored correctly to the download sites?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Thomas Hallgren
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