Re: debian-doc files on the Debian web server
Hi, (Sorry)
On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 18:14 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi Osamu,
>
> Am 3. November 2021 15:45:44 MEZ schrieb Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I finally made update to the cron script so we don't rely on FTP protocol.
> > url = git@salsa.debian.org:webmaster-team/cron.git
> >
> > 526ebd0 ("Download deb via HTTP", 2021-11-01)
> >
> > No more use of FTP protocol
> >
> > Ensure to avoid unnecessary downloads of non-sid packages and already
> > downloaded packages.
> >
> > unpack once and do not reprocess
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> >
> >
> > I stop making a copy of doc. I don't see the following data are used any more.
> > > $crondir/ftpfiles/doc
> >
> > Although it was tested on my machine, since this is rather big change, I am afraid
> > something may break.
>
> As far as I can see, the installation-guide source
> packages are
> no longer downloaded by 1ftpfiles.
> This was handled by this line:
>
> wgetfiles installation-guide installation-guide_*
I thought this was some kind of left-over. Sorry, you are getting *.dsc file and
tarball here. When I wrote wgetfiles, I didn't anticipate such uses.
> Now, building of installation-guide can no longer work.
> (the lessoften-parts/1installation-guide script relies on the
> source files to be existing in $ftpdir/pool dir.)
>
> Or did I miss something?
>
Give me sometime (2 days), I have some idea. Instead of Packages, we need to
download Sources there. Then it is trivial to download correct version. No rmadison
complication needed.
> > Holger: You are building installation-guide from source. Even though this is on
> > 'lessoften' side, it is quite heavy process. Since new 7doc can handle stable and
> > oldstable, using 7doc may be an idea.
>
> Will see, what can be done Herr.
This is longer term ... no rush.
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