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authorStephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>2021-08-05 15:02:22 -0700
committerJonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>2021-10-21 00:38:23 +0200
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* README (Release and devel archives): New section
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@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ archives" are useful for debugging:
** Notes specific to =elpa.gnu.org=
+*** Periodic builds
The way things are set up on this machine, we refresh the archive by
a cron job. You can do it by hand by logging in (access set up by FSF
admins), and
@@ -491,6 +492,25 @@ Which makes a full archive deployment, as discussed above. The symlink
=/var/www/packages= points to the corresponding directory under
=/home/elpa/=.
+*** Release and devel archives
+elpa.gnu.org serves the gnu and nongnu package collections (roughly,
+gnu requires FSF copyright assign, nongnu doesn't, but these terms are
+not fully defined here).
+
+In addition, elpa.gnu.org serves release and devel versions of each
+package. The release version is defined by a change in the =Version:=
+header of a package; the devel version is the latest commit.
+
+The release version is accessed at:
+
+gnu - https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/
+nongnu - https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/
+
+The devel version is accessed at:
+
+gnu - https://elpa.gnu.org/devel
+nongnu - https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu-devel/
+
* License
This file is part of GNU Emacs.