[arch-dev-public] Tool tarball location

[Jan de Groot]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: arch-dev-public-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public-
> bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Aaron Griffin
> Verzonden: woensdag 3 oktober 2007 0:47
> Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development
> Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] Tool tarball location
> 
> On 10/2/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/2/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > > Since namcap is hosted on projects now, where should the tarballs
> go?
> > > > ftp/other or somewhere else?  I don't think anyone's thought
> about this
> > > > yet...
> > >
> > > Yeah, let's use ftp/other/<toolname>/ for all our official stuff
> like
> > > pacman, devtools, etc etc.
> >
> > +1, although I'm not sure it was a vote. :) I would just say this-
> > let's try to keep our FTP stuff as clean as we can since Eliott put
> so
> > much work into getting it that way. Obviously this stuff belongs
> > there, but keeping it in organized folders is important.
> 
> Yeah yeah - I mean, it's voteable sure, but it's kind of a bikeshed
> thing. I figured we'd just go with precedent - one dir per app.

What about software snapshots? We currently use
www.archlinux.org/~name/mozilla/xulrunner-source-1.8.1.6.tar.bz2 for those
things for example. Should we also put these snapshots in the other
directory? I've seen these things disappearing from homedirs because of
cleanups (gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg source was gone after arjan was
degraded/promoted to a normal user)