RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2 disappeared

["Graeme Robinson" <GraemeR@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

The clean up threshold is about 8 days at the moment, and has been that
way for at least a month (I think longer, but the clean up script was
last changed a month ago).  As the website currently points to the
stable release and the latest release, the only reason to keep them
would be for people like yourself who require specific versions.  We
have disk space constraints but even if I did increase the time
constraints, someone would at some point require a version that is
<days>+1 old.  You can only assume that the version stored on our
download servers will be around while the website is pointing to it (ie
until the next checkin occours).

You could:
  - Keep your own copy.
  - Run a checkout of a specific version from svn which will always have
all the versions (svn checkout -r 1717 svn://svn.xara.com .)
  - Ask me and I'll scp new src tarballs to you at the same time as I
upload them to downloads, and you can keep your own archive for freebsd
users.

Have a good day
Graeme





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vasil Dimov
> Sent: 05 September 2006 06:59
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [XaraXtreme-dev] XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2 disappeared
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The automatic build of the FreeBSD port graphics/xaralx-devel 
> failed with the following error:
> 
> ...
> => XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /tmp/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/.
> fetch: 
> http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2: 
> Not Found ...
> 
> Here is the complete log:
> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/e.6.2006
090213/XaraLX-devel-0.7r1717.log
> 
> I tought that archives are kept at least about 30 days or so
> (XaraLX-0.7r1717.tar.bz2 was 10 days old).
> 
> Was this deletion accidental or is it going to happen in the future?
> If it is going to happen in the future I will need to mirror 
> the archives on ftp.freebsd.org. There is no problem with 
> that, I just need to know what to do.
> 
> For the current situation I will upgrade the port to 0.7r1738 
> in a few hours thus making it fetchable again.
> 
> --
> Vasil Dimov
> gro.DSBeerF@dv
> 
> Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
>                 -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
>