On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:12 PM Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > For each new release, it seems that the tarball is published in the > > "/source" directory (website) while the previous one is moved to > > "/source/old/<series>". > > > > Would it be possible that all releases land in "/source/old", > > including the new one when published? After all anything is more or > > less old, as soon as it's born ;) > > > Normally, you should be able to access older releases without changing the URL, > (even after they were moved) because there is an URL rewrite rule which handles this. > > For an example, 1.1.1a is available at the same location as 1.1.1g: > > ~/tmp$ curl -JOL https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1g.tar.gz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed > 100 9571k 100 9571k 0 0 1992k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 1992k > > ~/tmp$ curl -JOL https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1a.tar.gz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed > 100 8154k 100 8154k 0 0 4962k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 4960k > > Concidentally, a few days ago the rewrite rule was broken, but that has been fixed. > (see https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11521#issuecomment-612483438 and ff.) OK, that explains. Actually I had the issue from 1.1.1e to 1.1.1f and changed the script. Looking again at the changes now they look.. ugly, so I thought I'd ask. All I need is a persistent URL base, so thanks! Regards, Yann.
