Re: 8.1 Release Candidate 1 Bundled ...

Hi,

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/8.1/rc1
>
> The developer.postgresql.org machine really isn't geared to handle
> downloads.. Any reason you can't just stick it on the standard ftp sites
> and have it mirrored along with everything else?

This is taken from our spec:
# Pre-release RPM's should not be put up on the public ftp.postgresql.org server
# -- only test releases or full releases should be.

So thinking that:

* Beta and RC RPMs are used only by testers
* We use the beta and RC steps to build the new RPM sets, so that means
that actually they are not production quality looking from the RPM
perspective.

That's why I put them to developer site.

Another reason was that gunduz.org was unavailable for 2 months (and
putting the PGDG RPMs to my site does not sound good).

Regards,
--
Devrim GUNDUZ
Kivi Bilişim Teknolojileri - http://www.kivi.com.tr
devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
http://www.gunduz.org
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> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/8.1/rc1
> >
> > The developer.postgresql.org machine really isn't geared to handle=20
> > downloads.. Any reason you can't just stick it on the standard ftp=20
> > sites and have it mirrored along with everything else?
>=20
> This is taken from our spec:
> # Pre-release RPM's should not be put up on the public=20
> ftp.postgresql.org server # -- only test releases or full=20
> releases should be.
>=20
> So thinking that:
>=20
> * Beta and RC RPMs are used only by testers
> * We use the beta and RC steps to build the new RPM sets, so=20
> that means that actually they are not production quality=20
> looking from the RPM perspective.
>=20
> That's why I put them to developer site.
>=20
> Another reason was that gunduz.org was unavailable for 2=20
> months (and putting the PGDG RPMs to my site does not sound good).

I agree with that part about gunduz.org. But I think it'd be better to
just have a separate subdirectory for beta/rc:s on the ftp site. There
is already a http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.1beta/ which has
the win32 beta/rc files, so I suggest adding required dirs and put the
RPMs there.

//Magnus