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= Organization of the Open-Xchange private repository =

As a customer with a special support contract you will receive patches for critical problems in a special directory which can only accessed by you, personally.

This repository has a consistent layout:

 6.18.2
     \ 
       - custom
       - ptf
 6.20
     \ 
       - custom
       - ptf
 
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You will find your patches organized within top-level folders matching the version of the release you are currently using. Within these folders, you will always find

# '''a folder custom''' which contains individual customizing or manually uploaded stuff which does not fit into our automated processes.
# '''a folder ptf''' which contains individual bugfix patches as you requested them. These are automatically maintained by our internal workflow- and buildsystem.

Within the folder ptf, you will find repositories containing packages for all linux platforms you are maintaining:

 ptf_yyyy-mm-dd_yyyymmddnnnnnnnn_ldbaccount
 ptf_yyyy-mm-dd_yyyymmddnnnnnnnn_ldbaccount
 
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with

* '''yyyy-mm-dd''' the planned date of the release off this patch
* '''yyyymmddnnnnnnnn''' the id of (one of the) OTRS ticket(s) matching to this patch

Each of them contain

 DebianLenny
 DebianLenny_all
 Release_Notes_PTF_for_Ticket_yyyymmddnnnnnnnn_ldbaccount_yyyy-mm-dd.pdf
 RHEL6
 RHEL6_all
 
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As we only build the packages containing the bugfixes for your problem, we also provide "consolidated" repositories containing all our packages. These have the suffix <tt>_all</tt>.
These directories contain symlinks to the matching version of this build within http://software.open-xchange.com/X.YY/updates. However, with the next public patch release, these symlinks will become stale which means they will be removed then and instead you will find this:

 DebianLenny
 DebianLenny_all.readme
 RHEL6
 RHEL6_all.readme
 
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