[kde-edu]: Re: KDE Edu file hosting

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:09:41 PM Ben Cooksley wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have been made aware that KDE Edu needs the ability to have
> >> relatively large files hosted on a KDE server (other than through
> >> committing them to SVN). Is this still needed? KDE now has a system
> >> available which can handle these needs (files.kde.org) which I can
> >> arrange for the files to become hosted on.
> >>
> >> I can also arrange for redirects from the previous hosting locations
> >> on edu.kde.org to be setup if needed.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ben Cooksley
> >> KDE Sysadmin
> >
> >
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Indeed currently on our website space we have Kanagram files, KHangMan
> files,
> > Kig macros,  KLettres big tarballs (90 Mb), KStars files, Marble maps +
> some
> > binaries (49 Mb).
> > Not sure if they are all part of GHNS or not. They all should be moved
> > elsewhere indeed.
> >
> > Will files.kde.org be suitable to use with Synchroton? who will be able
> to
> > upload files? how?
>
> Access to upload files to files.kde.org will be done through SSH
> access to the system in question, to shell accounts. scp/sftp/fish can
> then be used to upload files (permitting the use of Dolphin to allow
> files, if you have the fish/sftp kio slaves installed). They would
> then be served under sub-urls of files.kde.org.
>
> At this time, it is a pure static file serving system (ie. not capable
> of executing any scripts). As KDE Sysadmin has not recieved any
> requests to setup Synchotron anywhere at this time, no instance exists
> at the moment. I don't know how much in the way of direct access to
> the files is needed by Synchotron.
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Anne-Marie
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We can use synchrotron for big files, but we would still need hosting.
Synchrotron would just serve as the repository.

Aleix
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