[Gluster-devel] Restructuring download.gluster.org package directories (WAS: Missing Debian packages)

[Vijay Bellur]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:05:55PM -0400, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:
>> > On 10/18/2016 09:52 AM, Shane StClair wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes, I'm well aware that packages are built by volunteers. Right now
>> > Gluster's Debian repos are breaking apt updates for anyone using these
>> > repos, all of which previously worked:
>> >
>> > https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.7/LATEST/
>> > https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.8/LATEST/Debian/
>> > https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/
>> >
>> > I'm trying to alert the volunteer(s) to this situation
>> >
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > And I asked him to email here since those volunteers are on this list and I
>> > don't know who they are for certain. I know there was a bulk of vacations
>> > last week so I suspected it might be related, but I didn't know for sure.
>> > It's worthy of a poke just to make sure it wasn't some sort of error or
>> > oversight.
>> >
>> >
>> > since I assume the intent is to not break systems, and to advise that Debian
>> > users be directed to not use LATEST URLs if this is the new normal.
>> >
>>
>> Can we change the directory structure from <release>/LATEST/<distro>
>> to <release>/<distro>/LATEST? Doing it that way will provide
>> volunteers the liberty to change LATEST for a distro after the related
>> packages are uploaded.
>
> Yes, I think that would be good.
>
> The current/old <release>/LATEST/<distro> can then become a symlink to
> the <release>/<distro>/LATEST so that we dont break it for everyone.
>
> Kaleb is doing most (if not all!) packaging that pops up on
> download.gluster.org. Nigel and Misc showed some interest in helping
> out, and maybe the can start with creating this new structure?
>

Bumping up this thread as we have not reached a conclusion.

Misc/Nigel - would you be able to help with the restructuring
described in this thread?

Thanks,
Vijay