FTP Clean Up, Current and Past Releases RPM Archive

[Chris Johns]

The FTP site contains a lot of broken files and junk and this needs to be cleaned up. The recent users list post about building using rpms shows we need to clean out broken files and move things for archive purposes to a suitable location.

This ticket also covers the issue of where to put the previous release RPM archive. These RPMs are valid and need to be archived. I am not sure we need to maintain yum repo level access any more and this needs to be discussed.

[Amar Takhar]

We should probably create an ftp.archive.rtems.org for these files. Moving to /pub/archive doesn't work very well as it breaks URLS. Using a different hostname+IP allows someone to add a hosts entry or just change the hostname without worrying about the path.

If we don't care about users updating the path then /pub/archive/ makes the most sense.

[Chris Johns]

Replying to amar:

We should probably create an ftp.archive.rtems.org for these files. Moving to /pub/archive doesn't work very well as it breaks URLS. Using a different hostname+IP allows someone to add a hosts entry or just change the hostname without worrying about the path.

Good idea. How would this happen, say I wanted to move something ? Coping it off and back seems stilly.

[Amar Takhar]

Replying to chrisj:

Good idea. How would this happen, say I wanted to move something ? Coping it off and back seems stilly.

It would be on the same storage array so mv will work just fine. We need to create a wiki page that explains how to archive data. The archive will be perminiant meaning we're stuck with whatever we throw on there. Having some rules will be important. For example:

• /pub/release/* -> /pub/archive/release/*
• /pub/doc/* -> /pub/archive/doc/*

We don't plan on having many toplevel directories so layout shouldn't be too hard to figure out. I believe there was an email on this a while back I will create a wiki page using the details from there.

[Amar Takhar]

Move to milestone:4.11.1