499060 - Stop generating platform-xpi symlinks in [ftp]/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

These symlinks are created as a side-effect of the way we abuse the 'milestone' argument to buildbotcustom's MozillaStageUpload() step.

Need to find a better way around this and avoid creating phantom symlinks

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IIUC, these links end up pointing to (copies of? hardlinks to?) directories of the same name one level down in latest-comm-1.9.1 ? All I can see from where I stand is that the contents have exactly the same names, number of bytes and date-time stamps.

Note: in ftp directories, SeaMonkey (and presumably Firefox etc.) shows symlinks in italics but doesn't show where they point, while the lowly command-line ftp utility does (at least on GNU/Linux).

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

These seems to happen no longer, so I suggest to close this bug.

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Martin Schröder [:mschroeder] from comment #2)
> These seems to happen no longer, so I suggest to close this bug.

The following symlinks are dated from today:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            40 Nov 10 04:29 2012-11-10-03-02-54-comm-central -> 2012/11/2012-11-10-03-02-54-comm-central
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            49 Nov 10 02:02 linux-xpi -> 2012/11/2012-11-09-23-56-35-comm-aurora/linux-xpi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            51 Nov 10 01:19 linux64-xpi -> 2012/11/2012-11-10-00-08-18-comm-aurora/linux64-xpi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            50 Nov 10 01:15 macosx-xpi -> 2012/11/2012-11-10-00-09-54-comm-aurora/macosx-xpi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            49 Nov 10 02:12 win32-xpi -> 2012/11/2012-11-10-00-11-38-comm-aurora/win32-xpi

There are older ones, one or two comm-central links per day back to Nov.01, and still older ones for "candidates" directories back to August 22.

Comment 4

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

This seems to be working now, I can't find these -xpi folders anymore.