[chirp_devel] LATEST link

[mheitmann at n0so.net]

>> 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.
>

There are similar processes that build the Fedora RPMs as well - I
happened to see the e-mail fore the (late) new build yesterday and
"kicked" the script to run manually. Looks like they made it OK.

Mike, N0SO