[cut-team] Snapshots

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 15:21:53 (CEST), Anthony Towns wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I see.

>> 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.

okay, so there are at most two snapshots in the archive:
testing-snapshot and testing-snapshot-new.

At the time testing-snapshot-new gets committed to testing-snapshot, can
we save the "old" testing-snapshot to archive.debian.org so that it
doesn't disappear completely?

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