Website now autocleans old files/pages

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 05:43:29AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote
>   in <20140218193256.GU1667 at glenbarber.us>:
> 
> gj> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> gj> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:33:53PM +0000, User Www-data wrote:
> gj> > > [...]
> gj> > >
> gj> > >        13.59 real         6.06 user         8.14 sys
> gj> > > mkdir: /usr/local/www/www.freebsd.org-clean: Permission denied
> gj> > > *** [realinstall] Error code 1
> gj> > >
> gj> > > Stop in /home/www/build/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs.
> gj> > >         0.03 real         0.00 user         0.02 sys
> gj> >
> gj> > Whoops.
> gj> >
> gj> > This is me "fixing" things.
> gj> >
> gj>
> gj> So, what I was working on is making the build clean up after itself, in
> gj> particular, things that are no longer part of the build.
> gj>
> gj> DESTDIR has changed, and is purged before every build (even the "quick"
> gj> incremental builds).  Once the build finishes, the files are installed
> gj> to the new DESTDIR, then synced to the public web root.
> gj>
> gj> When a full site refresh is done (once a week, as was done before),
> gj> rsync is called with '--delete', so anything removed from the DESTDIR
> gj> will be purged from the public web root.
> 
>  Hmm, replacing www/www.freebsd.org with a symlink might be simpler
>  than copying files in DESTDIR into PUBDIR and removing DESTDIR
>  everytime.  Create a staging directory and set DESTDIR to it, do make
>  install as before, and make the symlink to point the DESTDIR as a
>  newly-built document set (and removing the old directory).  It does
>  not need copying files and the contents can be switched atomically.
> 

I did think about this, but did not want to change the permissions on
the web root (root:wheel now) to allow the unprivileged user to
arbitrarily create symlinks.

Glen

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