Re: Dealing better with CD releases
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new
> CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken
> links each time. Simon Paillard and I had some discussion about this
> today on #debian-www and I've come up with a workflow that will
> improve things, I think (see 2c below). Please feel free to point out
> what I've missed... :-)
>
> 1. The Problem
>
> We generate new CDs and DVDs for each point release. These are
> published in the release area of cdimage.debian.org[1]. The image
> filenames and the top-level directory are versioned for clarity, and
> we add a "current" symlink in the debian-cd directory that points to
^^^^^^^
> the most recent version. We move old trees of images into the archive
> area[2] as each new build is published, We then prune most of the old
> ISO images so we don't waste too much space - older images can be
> recreated in the future using jigdo if necessary.
> d. Other ideas?
Can't we link to the 'current' images on the webpages?
Cheers
Luk
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