Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Mirrors and links

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> Otherwise, merging the contents of the update sites and having
> categories like "Buckminster 3.2" / "Buckminster 3.3" in your
> site.xml is the preferrable solution.
>
>   
I agree with that but it causes two problems. One is that people tend to 
check the top and attempt to install everything because the Update 
Manager really encourages you to do that (we already have a separate 
"site.xml" and "headless-site.xml" instead of the "Headless" category we 
had before because of this). The other problem is that the complexity of 
the build increases since it is no longer possible to have one distinct 
build (using one target platform) that creates, signs, packs, and 
publishes a site.

Things to wish for in the new Update Manager:
- Federations of update sites.
- A way to make the user aware that things are mutually exclusive
- Deeper nesting of categories or other selection criteria

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


> TM is not doing that yet but we'll be moving to this scheme.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Martin Oberhuber
> Wind River Systems, Inc.
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm 
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> > Behalf Of Nick Boldt
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:53 PM
> > To: Cross project issues
> > Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Mirrors and links
> >
> > download.eclipse.org, for example, does not permit apache (anonymous
> > web users) to follow symlinks. (Trust me, I've tried, opened a bug,
> > and been WONTFIXed for security reasons.) You can symlink the
> > filesystem to your heart's content, but only the actual path can be
> > found via the website. Note that
> > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/path/with/
> > symlinks/to/file
> > also doesn't work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On 7/4/07, Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > a few weeks ago I thought about a similar thing; in 
> > >       
> > principle it should work,
> >     
> > > at least the symbolic link will be mirrored by the rsync 
> > >       
> > script to all of the
> >     
> > > mirror.
> > >
> > > But the problem is the webserver (or ftp server) 
> > >       
> > configuration. Our mirror
> >     
> > > would allow such a symbolic link, but you never can be sure 
> > >       
> > that other
> >     
> > > mirrors have such a user-friendly (insecure?) configuration.
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 15:16, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Hi,
> > > > We have one update site where we maintain 3.2.x 
> > > >         
> > compatible versions of
> >     
> > > > Buckminster and one where we release for Eclipse 3.3.x. I 
> > > >         
> > would like to
> >     
> > > > have a layout that involves a symbolic link:
> > > >
> > > > 3.2/updates
> > > > 3.3/updates
> > > > updates -> 3.3/updates (or whatever is current)
> > > >
> > > > will such a link be mirrored correctly to the download sites?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Thomas Hallgren
> > > >         
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