[Tilesathome] (Mis?)usage of UploadTargetDirectory in upload.pl

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie schrieb:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb:
>> Shouldn't this in upload.pl:
>>
>> 65: ## FIXME: this is one of the things that make upload.pl not
>> multithread safe
>> 66: my $ZipDir = $Config->get("WorkingDirectory") . "/uploadable";
>>
>> Be changed to use UploadTargetDirectory? I was setting up a
>> configuration pretty much equivalent to the one described here[1] and
>> had to symlink my upload process's WorkingDirectory/upload to the
>> global UploadTargetDirectory.
>>
> 
> That's not how it should work.
> each client running on the same machine needs it's own working directory 
> for itself (we're slowly fixing all issues with that, so at some time in 
> the future this will not be necessary anymore)
> 
> So if you want to use uploadToDirectory, that means you do have multiple 
> clients running, each in their own working directory, pointing their 
> UploadTargetDirectory to one additional client, which has that same 
> directory set as its working directory, and uploading what ever gets 
> pushed there to the server (preferrably by ./tilesGen.pl upload_loop)

To make it clear:
you shouldn't have to link your working_directory/upload of your 
uploader to the global UploadTargetDirectory, but instead you should put 
uploader_working_directory/upload as UploadTargetDirectory for all the 
other clients that use UploadToDirectory=1

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
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