> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/8.1/rc1
> >
> > The developer.postgresql.org machine really isn't geared to handle
> > downloads.. Any reason you can't just stick it on the standard ftp
> > sites and have it mirrored along with everything else?
>
> This is taken from our spec:
> # Pre-release RPM's should not be put up on the public
> ftp.postgresql.org server # -- only test releases or full
> releases should be.
>
> So thinking that:
>
> * Beta and RC RPMs are used only by testers
> * We use the beta and RC steps to build the new RPM sets, so
> that means that actually they are not production quality
> looking from the RPM perspective.
>
> That's why I put them to developer site.
>
> Another reason was that gunduz.org was unavailable for 2
> months (and putting the PGDG RPMs to my site does not sound good).
I agree with that part about gunduz.org. But I think it'd be better to
just have a separate subdirectory for beta/rc:s on the ftp site. There
is already a http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.1beta/ which has
the win32 beta/rc files, so I suggest adding required dirs and put the
RPMs there.
//Magnus