Re: [Tsp-devel] Restructure download area: your opinion requested

[Eric Noulard]

2007/2/12, Stephane GALLES <address@hidden>:
> >
> > I think that separate directory 0.8.x  and 0.7.x make sense
> > but not for 0.8.1, 0.8.2 and the like since they SHOULD be compatible.
> >
> >> That means more disk space, as the
> >> docs for example are less likely to change from one release to
> >> another. Where are we wrt quotas?
>
> Would the use of symlink be possible ? It would allow to have a parallel
> directory structure for the source/binaries and for the docs, linking
> from the source/binaries directories to the matching documentation,
> saving a lot of disk space. Don't known if it is technically feasible
> in Savannah though...

I tried symlink through the sftp interface (symlink or ln sftp(1) command)

ftp address@hidden:/releases/tsp
Connecting to dl.sv.nongnu.org...
Changing to: /releases/tsp
sftp> ln tsp-0.8.2-Source.tar.gz tsp-LATEST-Source.tar.gz
sftp> quit

mainly for trying to establish something like:

tsp-LATEST-Source.tgz ---> tsp-0.8.2-Source.tar.gz

nevertheless I'm not sure it does a "real" symlink on remote file systems
since http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/tsp/
makes it appear like regular file.
It may be a real symlink since date, size and time are precisely
those of tsp-0.8.2-Source.tar.gz.

But I really don't wether it saves disk space or not...

I'll bet it should really be a symlink since:
sftp> ls -l tsp-*-Source.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    0 103      65534     3148519 Oct 19 23:51 tsp-0.8.1-Source.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    0 67824    3698      3203786 Nov 29 09:37 tsp-0.8.2-Source.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx    0 67824    3698           23 Feb 12 20:47 tsp-LATEST-Source.tar.gz
sftp>

I'll ask Savannah Hackers for this in order to be sure.

But this is a good idea to save space you are right.
Thanks for the idea

--
Erk