Re: Dealing better with CD releases

[Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk>]

On 22 Apr 00:23, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
> >Thilo Six wrote the following on 15.04.2009 22:20
> >>>
> >> How about a directory with links to current isos dricetly then?
> >> 
> >> current $ ls -l
> >> total 0
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 37 2009-04-15 22:18 current-stable-ARCH-1.iso ->
> >> ../ARCH/ISO/debian-501-amd64-CD-1.iso
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 USER USER 37 2009-04-15 22:18 current-stable-ARCH-2.iso ->
> >> ../ARCH/ISO/debian-501-amd64-CD-2.iso
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >But that approach obviously puts some more work on you Steve as you would
> >have to rebuild the files:
> >MD5SUMS
> >MD5SUMS.sign
> >SHA1SUMS
> >SHA1SUMS.sign
> >
> >with the appropriate file names i guess. Maybe in that same directory.
> 
> Yeah, that's a problem. Not something I'd like to do if I can avoid
> it: I would much rather have the real image names be the ones used in
> the *SUMS files.

So, umm, how about rather than symlinks, a .htaccess file with redirects in it?
That way the filename will match and the MD5SUMS would be right... Or am I
missing something?

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker