New mirror of XEmacs in Greece

[Adrian Aichner]

Kapetanakis Giannis <bilias at edu.physics.uoc.gr> writes:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Adrian Aichner wrote:
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>> Great, Giannis, this allows me to set everything up!
>>
>> One think I noticed:
>>
>> We added symbolic links recently from the pre-release directory for
>> any packages which only exist in the release directory.
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>> See
>> http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.xemacs.org/tux/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/
>> for an example of a mirror which already has them.
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> The links show up there, but they don't work either.
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>> I don't see these links in
>> http://ftp.gr.xemacs.org/ftp/beta/experimental/packages/
>>
>> Could these links be mirrored as well, please?
>>
>> Please let me know if our mirroring instructions need updating.
>>
>> Adrian
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> The links exist in my directory.
> However they have absolute path /ftp.
> /ftp does not exist on my system.
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> I believe that's why apache is refusing to serv them.
> I tried to do a symbolic link of /ftp -> /xemacs/ftp_area
> and everything worked. (in http:// only. ftp:// was still problem)
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> I would suggest that you do relative path links
> and not absolute path links.
>
> I tried to make the following symbolic link
> ln -sf ../../../packages/Sun-1.16-pkg.tar.gz
> and then I could download Sun package both from http://
> and ftp://

Thanks for the debugging, Giannis!

Norbert, can you please look into this?

Any reason not to use relative links?

Best regards!

Adrian

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