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Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)



On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:

> I do not know, maybe the core of the problem is not whether the packages are
> available, but who takes the responsability to make them available : I think I
> remember that it was asked and refused that they can be downloaded from the
> ftp-master server. If I get the green light, I can copy them on a machine of
> mine and make them available by http.

Unless you are in the ftpteam group, you won't be able to access the
packages in NEW:

pabs@merkel:~$ ls /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new/ -l | head
total 2858436
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam      2255 2009-02-05 09:17 0xffff_0.4.0-1.diff.gz
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam       979 2009-02-05 09:17 0xffff_0.4.0-1.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 katie ftpteam      1830 2009-02-05 09:17
0xffff_0.4.0-1_i386.changes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 katie ftpteam      4497 2009-02-05 09:17 0xffff_0.4.0-1_i386.dak
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam     35312 2009-02-05 09:17 0xffff_0.4.0-1_i386.deb
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam     87735 2009-02-05 09:17 0xffff_0.4.0.orig.tar.gz
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam      9816 2009-03-01 14:17 alt-ergo_0.8-1.diff.gz
-rw-rw---- 1 katie ftpteam      1318 2009-03-01 14:17 alt-ergo_0.8-1.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 katie ftpteam      1737 2009-03-01 14:17
alt-ergo_0.8-1_i386.changes
pabs@merkel:~$ id plessy
uid=2922(plessy) gid=800(Debian) groups=800(Debian),1135(webwml)

Looks like your idea will not work unless you can convince the ftpteam
to change the permissions on NEW packages.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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