Archive layout reorganization

[Landry Breuil]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jannis Pohlmann<jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've written a script that converts the old archive layout to the new
> one. The only missing piece is regenerating the checksum files but
> that's not too difficult.
>
> Automating this is risky, that's why the script prints out everything
> it creates, and also the files and directories it skipped. Here's the
> output:
>
>  http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/xfce/archive-layout.txt
>
> The test archive is created on
>
>  http://mocha.xfce.org/~jannis/archive/
>
> Please note that this archive only contains stuff from
> mocha.xfce.org/archive/ and not from goodies.xfce.org/releases/.
>
> Can anyone please check that everything is correct? Check if all
> releases are in place, no files are missing etc. and please have a look
> at the output and tell me what to do with the skipped files/directories
> at the bottom.
>
> The script is available on
>
>  http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/xfce/archive-migration.rb
>
> THIS IS IMPORTANT, so please, please have a look at the files and the
> test archive. Without feedback from you, we won't be able to move to the
> new layout.
>
> If you have any comments/suggestions/fixes, let me know.

When copying/linking files/dirs, is it possible to keep timestamps ?
(ctime mostly) - maybe only cosmetic, but can be useful sometimes when
looking for something in the archives. It may look silly, but i
already had to look for 'a tarball released in May 2007'.

Landry