[chirp_devel] LATEST link

[Dan Smith]

> My observation is that a new daily build usually shows up in its
> individual folder around 7 minutes after midnight Pacific time. Then
> what must be a separate process a few hours later, the "latest" files
> get copied into the "LATEST" folder.

Yep, the build runs at midnight and takes some number of minutes to
complete. That's the 00:07 timestamp you see. Then, a separate cron job
runs at 03:00 to update the link. It's silly, but since the builds go
over FTP, which can't do links (AFAIK), I have to have something else
update the latest link. Normally nobody notices this.

> Yesterday's daily build didn't happen until 7:22 am. This must be some
> time after the process that populates the "LATEST" folder. Once that
> process runs today, the daily-20140708 files will get copied to the
> "LATEST" folder and everything will once again be in sync.

Yep, I'm in the process of moving the equipment that runs the builds
(it's a long process) and the build failed the night before last because
the windows build VM wasn't running. When I noticed this in the morning,
I started it back up and re-triggered the build. That came after the
03:00 re-link of course.

I just looked and last nights 03:00 link fix ran and updated it, so I
think we're fine now, right?

--Dan

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