[Server-devel] Update-server - showing too many files?

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Scott,

I'm looking some more at the update-server sw, and also looking at how
rsync://updates.laptop.org behaves, and what olpc-update uses.

Right now, the server publishes a top-level 'root' directory, which is
what the client seems to be looking for, and also a number of other
things that the client seems to ignore. See

$ rsync   rsync://updates.laptop.org/build-703
drwx------        4096 2008/07/03 19:42:45 .
-rw-r--r--         318 2008/05/01 22:29:07 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--           0 2008/07/30 23:53:12 access
-rw-r--r--      139630 2008/05/01 22:29:07 build.log
-rw-r--r--     3604455 2008/05/01 22:29:07 contents
-rw-r--r--     1112432 2008/05/01 22:29:07 fakeroot.state
-rw-r--r--         137 2008/05/01 22:29:07 rsyncd.conf
-rw-r--r--           6 2008/07/03 19:42:47 size
-rw-r--r--           0 2008/06/26 14:56:37 sticky
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2008/03/27 01:12:45 root

root and content are what olpc-update seems to care about. All the
other ones are internal to the server. Changelog and build.log seem to
be 'nice to haves' from the EXTRAS array, but nothing reads them.

Do you agree? How much of this is desired from your POV?


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