The .filt file in /home/ftp/pub/rsync on samba.org controls which
subtrees release.py's FTP mirror excludes (currently /binaries/
and /generated-files/). Without it, step-10-push-ftp's
'rsync --del' would propagate local deletions to the server even
for those archive subtrees.
Until now the only copy of this two-line file lived on the server.
Bundle it in source at packaging/ftp.filt so it survives a disaster
on samba.org, and have step_1_fetch seed FTP_DIR/.filt from the
bundled copy on every run (with --exclude=/.filt on the rsync pull,
so the server's copy can't silently drift the bundled one).
step-10-push-ftp then propagates any in-source updates to the
filter back to the server.
Both scripts were pre-release.py legacy helpers:
* samba-rsync rsync'd ~/samba-rsync-{ftp,html}/ to the samba.org
server. release.py step-10-push-ftp and step-11-push-html now
do exactly this, using ../release/rsync-{ftp,html}/ as the
local mirrors.
* send-news copied README/INSTALL/NEWS .md + .html files into
~/samba-rsync-ftp/ and rsync'd them to samba.org.
release.py step-8-update-ftp already does this
(./md-convert --dest=FTP_DIR README.md NEWS.md INSTALL.md and
the surrounding rsync of html files into FTP_DIR), and
step-10-push-ftp pushes the result.
Update the trailing instructions printed at the end of
step-12-push-git to drop the now-obsolete 'run packaging/send-news'
suggestion, and tighten the comment in step_1_fetch that referred
to samba-rsync as a current sibling tool.
Track the move of rsync-web from sibling git checkout to a regular
subdirectory of the rsync source tree:
* HTML_SRC: '../rsync-web' -> 'rsync-web'.
* step_1_fetch: drop the .git-presence probe and the 'make sure
it's up to date' reminder. Both made sense when rsync-web was
a separate repo the maintainer had to clone and pull, but the
directory is now part of the same checkout as this script.
* rsync invocation no longer needs --exclude=/.git: there is no
.git inside rsync-web/ (it is just a subdir of the parent
rsync-git checkout).
* Header comment block and step-1 help text rewritten to describe
the new layout.