[lmi] Maintaining our ftp area [Was: Converting...to svn?]

[Greg Chicares]

On 2009-06-13 03:03Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> 
> Separately I'll document a tidy procedure for updating our ftp
> area on savannah, where a new 'setup.ini' can now be found.

# For reference:
#   http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DownloadArea

# Any local directory will do. I just happen to mirror
# some ftp stuff here:
cd /lmi/checkouts/ftp

# Edit the file, then sign it as follows.
# Specify './file-to-sign', not just 'file-to-sign'.
gpg --local-user address@hidden  --detach-sign ./setup.ini

# I can read and write; everyone else can read.
chmod 644 setup.ini setup.ini.sig
# To verify:
# stat -c '%a %n' setup.ini setup.ini.sig

# Let rsync take care of everything else.
# Use your own identity, of course.
rsync setup.ini setup.ini.sig address@hidden:/releases/lmi/

# This would also work:
scp setup.ini setup.ini.sig address@hidden:/releases/lmi/

Changes should show up here (mirrors take time though):
  http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/lmi/setup.ini

Just in case we ever use plain old 'ftp' again, here's an
ancient session for reference (but it's not secure, so gnu.org
wouldn't permit it today):

ftp
ftp> open savannah.gnu.org
Connected to savannah.gnu.org.
220 Savannah Upload FTP server ready.
Name (savannah.gnu.org:chicares): ftp
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd incoming/savannah/lmi
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> put lmi-data-20050618T1440Z.tar.bz2.sig
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
553 Could not create file.
ftp> put lmi-data-20050618T1440Z.tar.bz2
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Ok to send data.
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226 File receive OK.
303476 bytes sent in 6.3 seconds (48193 bytes/s)
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