behaviour change in download.kde.org - was - Re: KDE Frameworks 5.36.0

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El dilluns, 10 de juliol de 2017, a les 11:32:41 CEST, David Faure va
> escriure:
>> On vendredi 7 juillet 2017 15:51:41 CEST Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>> > ¡Hola David!
>> >
>> > El 2017-07-03 a las 02:18 +0200, David Faure escribió:
>> > > KDE Frameworks 5.36.0 has been uploaded to the usual place.
>> > >
>> > > New frameworks: none this time.
>> > >
>> > > Public release next Saturday.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for the packaging work!
>> >
>> > Currently, 5.36 is listed in https://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/
>> > but it gives 403 to try to access it. This is a bit of an annoyance for
>> > some of my scripts.
>> >
>> > If possible, could you please add the folder only when it's published?
>>
>> That folder is where the packagers get the tarballs from (using scp, not
>> public http), so I don't see how to do that.
>>
>> It's always been that way : for one week, the folder is there but without
>> permissions for the whole world just yet.
>>
>> (always = not just for KF5, but also for KDE SC releases, as far back as I
>> can remember)
>

Hi Albert,

> I'm 94.29% sure that previously stuff that was chmod 750 and belonging to
> ftpadmin:packager did not show in the http listing.
>
> sysadmins has there been an update to the code serving the download.kde.org
> listings?

Not to my knowledge - the last change to the system was back in
February this year.
I've done some searching and Apache doesn't appear to support not
including an inaccessible directory in a listing of files.

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Cheers,
Ben