[cut-team] Snapshots

[Anthony Towns]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 20:31, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:03:40 (CEST), Anthony Towns wrote:
>> We'll introduce a new "snapshot" suite on ftpmaster, something like:
>>       debian/ dists/
>>           squeeze/
>>           squeeze-snapshot/
>>           testing-snapshot-20100901 -> squeeze-snapshot
>>           testing -> squeeze
> Could you perhaps elaborate a bit what's the purpose of the
> 'testing-snapshot-20100901' symlink?

The symlink gives you a way to refer to the specific snapshot, to give
you a way to minimise the chance of getting a significant update when
you're not expecting one. Same as the "Debian5.0.5" links. I'm not
sure there's a lot of value to it, but there's not a lot of cost
either.

> Also, with this implementation plan, what happens when we start on
> working the second snapshot? Will we keep the previous one, or will a
> newer snapshot automatically replace the previous one?

See the updated version in the wiki -- that plan says there's a brief
period when we start working on a new snapshot while the old
snapshot's still there; but most of the time there's just one snapshot
in the archive. I think anything more than that's likely too be more
hassle on the archive than's warranted, though I might be wrong.

Cheers,
aj

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Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au>