[Savannah-cvs] administration/content/gnu-content/faq Download...

[Sylvain Beucler]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/administration
Module name:    administration
Branch:         
Changes by:     Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>        05/09/03 18:31:24

Modified files:
        content/gnu-content/faq: Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt 

Log message:
        Trying to get things a bit more clear on Eskild Hustvedt's request.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/administration/administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt.diff?tr1=1.1&tr2=1.2&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
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administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt
diff -u 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt:1.1
 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt:1.2
--- 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt:1.1
   Thu Apr 14 21:19:54 2005
+++ 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/Download_Area_-_How_do_I_add_files.txt   
    Sat Sep  3 18:31:23 2005
@@ -1,41 +1,49 @@
 <p>On Savannah, you must use FTP to upload your GPG signed
-files.Project administrators are the only ones allowed to upload files
-at this time.</p>
+files. Project administrators are the only ones allowed to upload
+files.</p>
  
-<p> To begin, please add your GPG key by logging in to Savannah and 
-visiting one of the following URLs:
-<ul>
- <li><a 
href="https://savannah.gnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey";>https://savannah.gnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey</a>
 </li>
- <li><a 
href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey";>https://savannah.nongnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey</a>
 </li>
-</ul> 
-Within 2 hours the system should have updated the files necessary for 
-uploads.</p>
+<p>To begin, please add your GPG key by logging in to Savannah and
+visiting the following URLs:
+
+<blockquote>
+<a 
href="https://savannah.gnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey";>https://savannah.gnu.org/account/change.php?item=gpgkey</a>
+</blockquote>
+
+Within 30 minutes the system should have updated the files necessary
+for uploads.</p>
  
 <p>After that time, use the following procedure to upload files:</p>
-<p> For each upload destined for Savannah, two files need to be 
+
+<p>For each upload destined for Savannah, two files need to be 
  uploaded via ftp to the site. 
 <ol> 
-<li> File to distributed (eg. foo.tar.gz) 
-<li> Detached GPG binary signature for (1) (using gpg -b) (eg. foo.tar.gz.sig) 
-</ol> 
-The files should be uploaded via anonymous ftp to savannah.gnu.org. 
-and placed in the /incoming/savannah/<projectname> directory. For 
-example, to place foo.tar.gz in project bar's download area, upload 
-foo.tar.gz and foo.tar.gz.sig to: <br>
- ftp://savannah.gnu.org/incoming/savannah/bar 
+<li>File to distributed (eg. <code>foo.tar.gz</code>)
+<li>Detached GPG binary signature for (1).
+To create it, use <code>gpg -b</code>, for example:<br/>
+<code>gpg -b --use-agent foo.tar.gz</code><br />
+which will produce a file named <code>foo.tar.gz.sig</code>.
+</ol>
 </p>
 
-<p> Uploads are processed every five minutes. Uploads that are in 
- progress when the upload processing script is running are handled 
- properly, so do not worry about the timing of your upload. 
-</p> 
-<p>
- You can not create subdirectories in ftp. Further, currently 
- there is no easy way to manipulate (move, rename, delete, or 
- work in subdirectories) with the new system.  There is, however,
- an interface being developed which will allow for the management of
- files with subdirectories.
-</p>
+<p>The files should be uploaded via anonymous ftp to savannah.gnu.org.
+and placed in the <code>/incoming/savannah/project_name</code>
+directory.</p>
+
+<p>For example, to place <code>foo.tar.gz</code> in project
+<i>bar</i>'s download area,<br />
+
+upload:<br />
+<blockquote><code>foo.tar.gz</code></blockquote>
+and
+<blockquote><code>foo.tar.gz.sig</code></blockquote>
+to
+<blockquote><code>ftp://savannah.gnu.org/incoming/savannah/bar</code></blockquote></p>
 
+<p>Uploads are processed every five minutes. Uploads that are in
+ progress when the upload processing script is running are handled
+ properly (using <code>lsof</code>), so do not worry about the timing
+ of your upload.</p>
 
-<P><font size="-1">Updated $Date: 2005/04/14 21:19:54 $</font>
+<p>You can not create subdirectories in ftp. Further, currently there
+is no easy way to manipulate (move, rename, delete, or work in
+subdirectories) with the new system.</p>