Archive layout reorganization

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:45:36 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:

> On 07/22/2009 08:23 AM, Jannis Pohlmann 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.
> 
> Why do they need to be regenerated?

I've just decided to go with per-file .sha1 and .md5 checksum files
rather than one SHA1SUMS/MD5SUMS file per directory. This also means
that we can copy checksum files along with the existing tarballs.

> > 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/
> 
> I assume you've also prepared suitable apache rewrite rules so all
> our old URLs don't break?  That would be a requirement as well.

No, but that shouldn't be too hard. 

> For any mtime issues, you can use 'touch' to set the mtimes of files
> to arbitrary dates.  I'm think ctime isn't changeable, though (but
> not sure).
> 
> Let's focus on not breaking things here...

Again, timestamps are now preserved.

  - Jannis
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